| TIANANMENSQUARE | Plaza in Beijing, China; scene of protests in 1989 |
| SQUARE | Plaza in Beijing, China; scene of protests in 1989 (9,6) |
| TIANANMEN | Plaza in Beijing, China; scene of protests in 1989 (9,6) |
| FORBIDDEN | The ___ City, a walled section within Beijing, China, enclosing the Imperial Palace (9) |
| WTO | Subject of protests in Seattle in 1999: Abbr. |
| DRAFT | Frequent subject of protests in the sixties and seventies |
| ARAB | ___ Spring (group of protests in the 2010s) |
| FERGUSON | City in Missouri that was the scene of protests and civil disorder following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown |
| GOSLOW | Form of protest in grand city in North West |
| SITIN | Popular form of protest in the '60s |
| REALLY | It can be an expression of protest, in fact |
| REDSQUARE | English name of the plaza in Moscow next to the Kremlin known in Russian as Krasnaya Ploshchad(3,6) |
| BERNINI | Italian sculptor and creator of the vast plaza in front of St Peter's Basilica |
| NAIROBI | City where parliament was stormed in June, 2024, in a wave of protests against proposed taxes |
| COYOTES | Predators are evasive in the middle of protests |
| UPROARS | Protests in favour of a Republican in the States (7) |
| GREENHAM | ____ Common, site in Berkshire of anti-nuclear weapons protests in the 1980s (8) |
| TRIOSQUARE | Plaza in which a jazz group plays to passersby? |
| FORUM | Roman _, ancient plaza in Rome surrounded by ruined government buildings (5) |
| WOUNDEDKNEE | Tribal reservation massacred by the US army in 1890 - object of civil rights protests in 1973 (7,4) |