| GUILLAUME | Willy Brandt resigned as West Germany's chancellor in 1974 after it was revealed his close aide Gunt |
| MERKEL | Sole woman to serve as Germany's Chancellor |
| LUCAN | Lord ____ , British aristocrat who disappeared in 1974 after his maid was killed (5) |
| THERUBETTES | English band put together in 1974 after the success of Sugar Baby Love, recorded by studio session musicians (3,8) |
| BRANDENBURGGATE | When it was revealed tht Bach plagiarized one of his concertos, the resulting scandal was called... |
| LIONSGATE | When it was revealed that the zoo was mistreating some of its animals, the resulting scandal was called... |
| ENOCHPOWELL | Who was ejected from Heath's British shadow cabinet when he revealed his racial prejudice in a 1968 |
| FRIEDRICE | In 2015, Yangzhou, China, was denied a Guinness record for the largest preparation of this food, about 9,200 lbs., after it was discovered that some of it had gone uneaten, contravening record rules |
| LENINGRAD | What the Russian city was called after it was Petrograd but before it went back to being St Petersbu |
| TWEEZERS | They extract middle verse after it was described as affectedly cutesy in last letter |
| ERHARD | Chief architect of West Germany's post-Second World War recovery; he became chancellor in 1963 (6) |
| STARGATE | When it was revealed that NASA's funding had been completely cut, the resulting scandal was called... |
| IRIAN | Before 2007 the Indonesian province West Papua was known as West ... Jaya |
| LANDINGSTRIP | Flight attendant event that took place as West Jet was flying into Toronto? |
| STEVIE | Billy's estranged dad who revealed his secret family in EastEnders (6,8) |
| MITCHELL | Billy's estranged dad who revealed his secret family in EastEnders (6,8) |
| COLE | Half-brother of Warren Fox who recently revealed his true colours to Mercedes in Hollyoaks (4) |
| JENSON | Half-brother of Warren Fox who recently revealed his true colours to Mercedes in Hollyoaks (6) |
| YOUTUBE | Company sold in 2006 for $1.65 billion - 21 months after it was founded |
| ERA | Legislation ratified by Va. in 2020, nearly a hundred years after it was first introduced |
