| CONTRAS | What was the name given to the US-backed right-wing guerrillas of 1980s Nicaragua? (7) |
| DREAMTEAM | Name given to the US men's basketball squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (5,4) |
| SWATS | Name given to the US Navys special ops Sea, Air and Land teams (5) |
| REDARMY | What was the name given to the former Soviet land forces? (3,4) |
| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| LIERNES | Thought to be from "bind" or "clematis", the name given to the connecting decorative ribs forming star patterns in the stellar vaults of Gothic or medieval architecture (7) |
| COROLLA | From Latin for "little crown", the name given to the circlet or whorl of petals crowning a flower's calyx (7) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| SECTION | Sharing its root, "to cut", with the name given to any segmented arthropod, word for a chapter, division, passage or other portion of a whole (7) |
| BALFOUR | The name given to a letter sent to Baron Rothschild in November 1917? (7,11) |
| CORDOBA | What is the standard monetary unit of Nicaragua? (7) |
| NONAGON | What is the name given to a nine-sided shape? (7) |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| METHANE | The name given to marsh-gas (7) |
| LEACOCK | Canadian humorist Stephen ____ observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish |
| TRAVAIL | Labour backed right to get benefit |
| THIRTEEN | What was the name given to the doctor played by Olivia Wilde in House MD? |
| WEIMAR | What was the name given to the German republic between 1919 and 1933? (6) |
| THEELBOW | What is the name given to the narrowing of the course just before the finish line of the Aintree Gra |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
