| NANTES | French port at the head of the Loire estuary that was the scene of the Noyades during the French Revolution |
| IRONWORDED | In noyade, drown or immerse revolutionary - powerfully put by poet |
| LEHAVRE | French port at the mouth of the River Seine (2,5) |
| PORTISHEAD | Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary |
| PLATE | English name for the wide river estuary that forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay (5) |
| EILAT | Israeli port at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba (5) |
| TRIESTE | Port at the head of the Adriatic Sea (7) |
| NELSON | NZ city and port at the head of Tasman Bay |
| ROBESPIERRE | The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution effectively ended with the execution of this prominent leader (11) |
| REIGNOFTERROR | Period of Jacobin rule during the French Revolution (1789-1799) that saw thousands of people sent to the guillotine (5,2,6) |
| GIRONDIST | Member of the moderate republican party suppressed by the Jacobins during the French Revolution (9) |
| HEBERT | Jacques, 18c French revolutionary and leader of the sans-culottes during the French Revolution (6) |
| LOUIS | Name of the French king executed in 1792 during the French revolution (5) |
| JACOBIN | A member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, led by Robespierre (7) |
| TUMBREL | Name the cart used for carrying condemned persons to the guillotine during the French Revolution (7) |
| TUMBRIL | What open cart was used to convey prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution? (7) |
| SUNDERLAND | Port at the mouth of the River Wear that received city status in 1992 (10) |
| MANNHEIM | Industrial German port at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar (8) |
| REIGN | - of Terror; period of state terrorism during the French Revolution led by Maximilien Robespierre (5) |
| MARIE | The wife of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution (5,10) |
