| SMITHSONIAN | US Institution of museums, nicknamed "the nation's attic" (11) |
| FED | Heads of fine, extremely democratic US institution under attack |
| FEDERALRESERVE | Which US institution acts as a central bank? (7,7) |
| INQUISITION | The ___, judicial institution of the Roman Catholic Church founded to suppress heresy (11) |
| LINCOLNSINN | President wrong over new institution of the law |
| ALBERT | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria and organiser with Henry Cole of the 1851 Great Exhibition, after whom an area of museums and cultural sites in London is nicknamed (6) |
| TREE | 'And the leaves of the ___ were for the healing of the nations' (Revelation 22: 2) (4) |
| SMITHSONIANINSTITUTION | Group of museums informally called "America's attic" |
| EEC | Institution of the EU set up by the Treaty of Rome (3) |
| ISRAEL | Country that, according to its tourist bureau, has the highest number of museums per capita |
| CURATORS | People in charge of museums |
| EMUS | Birds flying from either end of museums (4) |
| AAM | American alliance of museums: abbr. |
| HANDSON | (Of museums) with touchable exhibits |
| POE | Subject of museums in Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md. |
| PRINCETON | Fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746 (9) |
| ROYALIST | One who supports the institution of the monarchy (8) |
| AGAKHAN | Which trophy is awarded to the winners of the Nations Cup at the Dublin Horse Show? (3,4) |
| ICEHOCKEY | In the 2002 Winter Olympics Canada took the gold for this team rink sport, fifty years to the day from the nation's previous victory (the women's team won gold too!) (3,6) |
| ASIA | The nations of the East, collectively (4) |
