| ILDUCE | Title assumed by Benito Mussolini as leader of Fascist Italy from 1922 to 1943 (2,4) |
| DUCE | Il ---, the title assumed by Benito Mussolini as leader of Fascist Italy (4) |
| BENITO | ___ Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 (6) |
| MUSSOLINI | Fascist leader of Italy from 1922 to 1943 (9) |
| PIETRO | Italian marshal who succeeded the deposed Benito Mussolini as prime minister on 25 July 1943 (6,8) |
| AXIS | The _, the alliance of fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Japan, first established in 1936 (4) |
| BADOGLIO | Italian marshal who succeeded the deposed Benito Mussolini as prime minister on 25 July 1943 (6,8) |
| STALIN | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953 (6) |
| EFFETE | Degenerate English leader of Fascist party |
| FAMOUS | Legendary couple of leaders of fascist movement usurped? (6) |
| OSWALD | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1929-30; founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 (6,6) |
| MOSLEY | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1929-30; founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 (6,6) |
| FATHOM | Understand leader of fascists, in briefly (6) |
| STALINISTS | Supporters of a hardline Soviet leader who ruled his country from 1922 to 1953 (10) |
| SPODE | Roderick ___, leader of fascist group The Black Shorts in stories by P G Wodehouse (5) |
| IMPERIA | Coastal city of Liguria created by Benito Mussolini in 1923 (7) |
| HAYS | Will H, US politician who was president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America from 1922 to 1945 (4) |
| USSR | Acronym for the transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 (1,1,1,1) |
| GUADALCANAL | The largest of the Solomon Islands, occupied by the Japanese from 1942 to 1943 (11) |
| LATERAN | ___ Treaty, 1929 pact signed by Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI (7) |
