| STOPES | Women's rights campaigner who opened the first birth control clinic in London in 1921 (6) |
| MARIESTOPES | The campaigner who opened Britain's first birth control clinic in 1921 (5,6) |
| ANITARODDICK | Who opened the first Body Shop in 1976? (5,7) |
| LIZCARR | Disability-rights campaigner who played Clarissa Mullery in Silent Witness |
| PEARSON | Disability rights campaigner who is competing on Celebrity MasterChef (4,7) |
| ADAM | Disability rights campaigner who is competing on Celebrity MasterChef (4,7) |
| FAWCETT | Millicent ___, women's rights campaigner and sister of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (7) |
| MILLICENT | ___ Fawcett, 19th-century women's rights campaigner (9) |
| FEMINIST | Women's rights campaigner (8) |
| SEARLE | Pfizer subsidiary that developed the first birth control pill |
| FROBEL | Friedrich ___, German educator who opened the Kindergarten institute in 1840 (6) |
| MAHEDI | Who opened the bowling for Bangladesh in its third T20I against India? (6) |
| SAMSON | Wicketkeeper-batter who opened the innings against Zimbabwe. (Last name) (6) |
| BARDOT | Brigitte ___, film star and animal rights campaigner (6) |
| LUMLEY | Absolutely Fabulous actress and human rights campaigner, Joanna _ (6) |
| BREECH | Bottom-first birth position |
| MARTIN | Martyred Civil Rights campaigner, ... Luther King |
| REHABS | Clinics, in short |
| OLD | Identify the surname of this English pace bowler who opened the bowling in the one-off England's Centenary Test at Lord's in 1980 and was the highest wicket-taker, with three wickets in each innings. |
| MILES | Bernard ?, actor who opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959 (5) |