| EVAPERON | Argentina's de facto health and labour minister in the early 1950s |
| TONYBENN | Labour minister in the government of Harold Wilson who disclaimed the title Viscount Stansgate in 1963 (4,4) |
| MEIR | Golda who was a prime minister in the early 1970s |
| NYERERE | President and Labour Minister of Health embraced the Queen twice (7) |
| PETERHAIN | Former Anti-Apartheid Movement activist and Labour minister created a life peer in 2015 |
| CROMIE | Brother of Featherbed designer Rex, this Northern Irishman scored wins at the Isle of Man and the Ulster GP in the early 1950s. (6,10) |
| MCCANDLESS | Brother of Featherbed designer Rex, this Northern Irishman scored wins at the Isle of Man and the Ulster GP in the early 1950s. (6,10) |
| THEQUIETAMERICAN | Graham Green novel set in Vietnam in the early 1950s (3,5,8) |
| ROCKNROLL | US musical genre that broke into public consciousness in the early 1950s, and went on to have a revolutionary, lasting influence on pop music (4,1,4) |
| AUTOCROSS | Timed motor-racing around a course of rough or unfinished terrain, originating in Britain in the early 1950s (9) |
| MAYFLOWERS | Two-door Triumph saloons sold in the early 1950s (10) |
| REGALS | Reliant three-wheelers launched in the early 1950s (6) |
| ARONDE | All-new car from Simca that arrived in the early 1950s (6) |
| ACRILAN | Brand-name synthetic textile named by Monsanto in the early 1950s (7) |
| SALK | Jonas ___, US virologist who developed a vaccine against polio in the early 1950s (4) |
| ELAL | Airline in the early 1950s' Operation Ali Baba |
| MCCARTHY | Which US senator led a campaign against supposed communist subversion in the early 1950s? (8) |
| BEVAN | Which British Labour Minister for Health introduced the National Insurance Act (1946) and the National Health Service act (1948), setting up the NHS? (5) |
| RAMBLER | Which Nash car model of the early 1950s was considered to be the first US compact car? (7) |
| NASHHEALEYS | Anglo-American sports cars from the early 1950s (4-7) |
