| ROBESON | Paul ___ , US bass singer and outspoken political activist, d. 1976 (7) |
| PAULROBESON | US bass singer and political activist of the 1930s (4,7) |
| ANGELOU | Maya ___ , US writer, poet and civil rights activist, d. 2014 (7) |
| MAOISTS | Followers of China's revolutionary leader, d. 1976 (7) |
| BRITTEN | English composer, d. 1976 (7) |
| BARONET | Half-cut bass, singer lipping - call him "Sir"! (7) |
| RICHARD | - Dawkins, scientist and outspoken atheist (7) |
| TRAINOR | Meghan _, All About That Bass singer (7) |
| SONTAG | American literary figure and political activist, d. 2004 - tangos (anag) (6) |
| SHAW | Irish playwright and political activist, d. 1950 (4) |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African writer and political activist, d. 2014 (6) |
| PANKHURST | First coming down close to bottom, smack proved painful for political activist, d. '28 (9) |
| GETTY | J Paul ___, US oil billionaire and art collector who died in 1976 (5) |
| SIMON | Paul ___, US singer (5) |
| REISER | Paul ___, US actor who played Modell in 1982 comedy-drama film Diner (6) |
| RADIN | Paul _, US anthropologist specialising in Native American languages (5) |
| REVERE | Paul ___, US revolutionary hero known for his 'midnight ride' (6) |
| SAMUELSON | Paul ___, US economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1970 (9) |
| PLAINDEALING | Being candid and outspoken even before trading (5-7) |
| HEISENBERG | "Uncertainty principle" mathematical physicist, d. 1976 - begins here (anag) (10) |
