| FRANKLIND | US president who instituted the New Deal (8,1,9) |
| ROOSEVELT | US president who instituted the New Deal (8,1,9) |
| WOOD | Conductor who instituted the first 'Prom' concert aged 26 and arranged the Fantasia on British Sea Songs (4) |
| INNOCENT | ? III, pope from 1198-1216 who instituted the Fourth Crusade (8) |
| ISABELLAI | Queen of Castile who instituted the Spanish Inquisition with husband Ferdinand of Aragon (8,1) |
| PULITZER | US newspaper publisher who instituted prizes for literature, journalism and music (8) |
| FDR | Initials of the president who implemented the New Deal |
| HAMMURABI | Babylonian king who instituted one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history (9) |
| LANFRANC | Archbishop of Canterbury, 1070-89, who instituted many reforms in the English church (8) |
| GEORGE | King who instituted a decoration for bravery; a character in Joyce Grenfell's "don't do that" Nursery School monologue; or, a spoken word performer known as "the poet" (6) |
| NOBEL | Dynamite inventor who instituted a series of prizes for outstanding work (5) |
| FRANKLINDELANOROOSEVELT | Originator of the New Deal in America |
| OLDHAND | One experienced nothing from the New Deal? |
| LEAD | Go first in the new deal |
| ALLIED | Associated with £1 in the new deal (6) |
| RESHUFFLE | Prime Minister's announcement that precedes the New Deal? |
| SSN | ID introduced with the New Deal |
| STATEPARK | One of over 800 created under the New Deal's CCC |
| GEORGEMEDAL | Civil decoration in the UK and Commonwealth instituted in 1940, subordinate to the homonymous Cross (6,5) |
| EEC | Org. instituted by the Treaty of Rome |