| BAYOFPIGS | Where was there an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops in 1961? (3,2,4) |
| UNPLANNED | "I ask myself, again and again: was there an alternative to the indiscriminate, brutal, basically ____ rush forward of the Five-Year Plan?" (Eric Hobsbawm) |
| BOSTON | Where was there a hostile "Tea Party" in 1773? (6) |
| HALO | Was there an aura about the Taj Mahal once? (4) |
| IDIAMIN | Despotic president of Uganda deposed in 1979 following an unsuccessful invasion of Tanzania (3,4) |
| COUNTERMAND | Order to return from Cuba by modern aunt surprisingly (11) |
| PAVAROTTI | Who made his operatic debut Puccini's La Boheme in 1961? (9) |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula in NW Turkey, between the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros, that was the scene of an unsuccessful Allied campaign in 1915 |
| TIMBUCTOO | Youth college in US backed over place for Africans |
| JOHNBROWN | US abolitionist leader hanged in 1859 after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
| THREESOME | Out there, an unspecified number makes a trio |
| GOA | Which Portuguese territory in India was seized by India in 1961? (3) |
| LOSTCAUSE | Couldn't find the reason for an unsuccessful campaign (4,5) |
| LUMUMBA | Who was the first prime minister of independent Congo, ousted and assassinated in 1961? (7) |
| PIGS | Site of 1961 US.- backed invasion, Bay of |
| SALVADORALLENDE | President of Chile deposed in a US-backed coup d'etat in 1973 |
| CONTRAS | What was the name given to the US-backed right-wing guerrillas of 1980s Nicaragua? (7) |
| MULLINER | Which coachbuilder was merged with Park Ward in 1961? (8) |
| MITCHEL | Who read the first ever televised news bulletin on RTE in 1961? (7) |
| KEN | A friend for Barbie, which doll appeared in 1961? (3) |
