| MACCABEES | A Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynasty |
| MACCABEUS | Founders of the Hasmonean dynasty of ancient Judea (c. 140-37 BC), celebrated in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah (9) |
| MACCABEE | Jewish rebel warrior who took part in the control of Judea around the second century BCE (8) |
| LANDS | Judea and Sheba, in the Bible |
| SAMARIA | Judea and ___ (7) |
| YUDHOYONO | In 2004, which army general became the sixth president of Indonesia and founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia? (9) |
| LOCKYER | Scientist who postulated the existence of helium in the Sun some 25 years prior to its discovery on Earth by William Ramsay and founded the journal Nature (7) |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| LIFEGUARDS | Senior regiment of the British Army that with the Blues and Royals makes up the Household Cavalry |
| VIET | and 20dn, Political organisation and army that fought the US and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War |
| JOSEPHOFARIMATHEA | The rich Jew who, according to legend, brought the Holy Grail to Britain and founded the abbey at Glastonbury (6,2,9) |
| ARISTIPPUS | Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school (10) |
| SAINTMARTIN | ____ became bishop of Tours in AD371 and founded the nearby Marmoutier Abbey |
| JENA | 1806 battle where Napoleon's forces defeated the Prussians and took control of Prussia (4) |
| ISIS | Islamic terrorist group which took control of large areas of Syria and Iraq in 2014-15 (4) |
| LORDBYRON | English poet who died shortly after leading part of a rebel army in a campaign against the Ottoman Empire |
| ROYALENGINEERS | Branch of the British Army that undertakes the building of fortifications, mines, bridges, etc |
| CONG | see 4dn, Political organisation and army that fought the US and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War |
| WOOLF | Leslie and Julia Stephen's Bloomsbury Group daughter who wrote Orlando and founded the Hogarth Press with her husband, Leonard (5) |
| INGLE | Richard ___, English seaman and tobacco trader who took control of Maryland in 1645 (5) |
