| STALINIST | Red, in the 1940s |
| FALA | Scottie in the White House in the 1940s |
| LEAF | Admired in the pastime of "peeping", any one of the organs of photosynthesis of deciduous trees and other plants, turning from green to yellow and red in the autumn (4) |
| IDIOM | "See red," "in the red," or "red herring" |
| STANMUSIAL | He led the majors in triples three times in the 1940s |
| PORTLAND | Oregon city, noted as a centre for organised crime in the 1940s and '50s and of counterculture in the 1960s and '70s (8) |
| THEALBERTHALL | With a similar name to London's iconic venue, this was the main place for entertainment in Australia's capital city in the 1940s and 50s (3,6,4) |
| ZOOTSUITS | Men's outfits consisting of baggy trousers and long jackets, popular in the US in the 1940s (4,5) |
| MANHATTANPROJECT | In the 1940s, the ____ produced the first nuclear weapons |
| BEBOP | Style of jazz developed in the USA in the 1940s (5) |
| RHYTHMANDBLUES | Precursor of rock'n'roll that arose in the US in the 1940s (6,3,5) |
| AUTOMATIC | Shift in cars beginning in the 1940s |
| NAZI | Frequent enemy in comics set in the 1940s |
| SUNLAMPS | Paper contacts the foreign police in barracks - some will be red in the face lying under these structures (8) |
| RUDDIER | The more impolite about Di, the more red in the face (7) |
| FIELD | Sid ___, comedian who starred in the 1940s films Cardboard Cavalier, London Town and That's the Tick |
| GLENROTHES | New town in Fife (pop about 40,000), planned in the 1940s (10) |
| RANK | J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s |
| NIVEN | David -----, suave British actor in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s (5) |
| SNORKEL | Retractable ventilating tube for submerged submarines, developed from the Dutch snuiver ('sniffer') in the 1940s (7) |
