| LEON | ___ Trotsky, Russian revolutionary who was a lover of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (4) |
| LENIN | Russian revolutionary who was the first head of the Soviet Union (5) |
| GUEVARA | Argentine Marxist revolutionary who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution (7) |
| KAHLO | Mexican painter Frida |
| LASS | "It was a lover and his ___" (beginning of a song in "As You Like It") |
| EROS | Another sower out west was a lover |
| DIEGORIVERA | Mexican painter who married painter Frida Kahlo, twice (5,6) |
| MARX | German revolutionary who cowrote, with Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto |
| OTIS | James ___, revolutionary who popularized the phrase "Taxation without representation is tyranny" |
| DIEGO | Mexican painter Rivera who married painter Frida Kahlo |
| TROTSKY | Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, Russian revolutionary who developed a form of Marxism (7) |
| DECEMBRIST | A Russian revolutionary who took part in an uprising in 1825 (10) |
| LEONTROTSKY | Russian revolutionary who largely created the Red Army (4,7) |
| ARRESTED | All the others were included by a revolutionary who was taken into custody (8) |
| HAYEK | Nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for playing her compatriot, painter Frida Kahlo. (5) |
| SALMAHAYEK | Actress, Oscar-nominated for her 2002 role as painter Frida Kahlo |
| MARAT | French revolutionary who was killed in a bathtub |
| CHE | Revolutionary who was famously the subject of "Guerrillero Heroico" |
| ROBESPIERRE | French revolutionary who was guillotined |
| VILLA | Pancho, Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt against the regime of Victoriano Huerta (5) |
