| SHANGRILA | Tim leaves animal rights movement for Tibetan utopia (7-2) |
| BEASTGENERATION | 1950s animal rights movement? |
| BLM | Civil rights movement, for short |
| SECTION | Cult leader leaves animal part (7) |
| VACATION | Leave animal I love in vehicle (8) |
| LOSTHORIZON | 1933 novel by English author James Hilton in which the Tibetan utopia Shangri-La originates (4,7) |
| DALAILAMA | 1989 winner and 14th spiritual leader of Tibet, awarded for his nonviolent struggle for Tibetan autonomy (5,4) |
| ROSEPARKS | The 'mother of the civil rights movement', best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955/56 (4,5) |
| STONEWALL | ___ riots, hailed as the beginning of the international gay rights movement. |
| GREENWAVE | Latin American abortion rights movement |
| LAMAISM | Which now discredited term for Tibetan Buddhism comes from a Chinese term for "doctrine of the lamas"? (7) |
| IDLY | Tim leaves nervously, for no particular reason (4) |
| JUSTINE | Durrell's woman Tim leaves at the last possible moment |
| OMITS | So Tim leaves it out like that? (5) |
| TERIYAKI | Style of Japanese cooking fit ultimately for Tibetan bovine, eaten by ER II (8) |
| LAMAS | Term, meaning guru, for Tibetan monks or Buddhist teachers |
| LAMASERA | Monastery for Tibetan or Buddhist priests |
| PERFECTHARMONY | 1719 painting by Antoine Watteau; 1991 Disney film set during the Civil Rights Movement (7,7) |
| MALCOLMX | Black Muslim U.S. civil rights movement leader assassinated in 1965 (7,1) |
| SELMA | A city in Alabama best known for the 1960s civil rights movement (5) |