| CENSURED | Started with Constitution and made certain it was condemned (8) |
| CLINCHED | Made certain it had been securely fastened (8) |
| SURPRISED | Astonished, almost certain it was forced (9) |
| ENSURED | Following Rex in and made certain |
| KISSANDMAKEUP | Be reconciled after brush with constitution |
| SEP | Mo. with Constitution Day |
| ACCURSED | Blamed revolutionary leader inside who was condemned to misery and destruction (8) |
| DAMOCLES | He was condemned to sit under a sword suspended by a single hair |
| FRIGATES | The USS Constitution and others |
| SOMETIME | Certain it will come back to me, I don't know when (8) |
| LEISURED | Having spare time, the French made certain to be down by noon |
| CANTON | Any one of the 26 states of Switzerland including Zurich and Bern, each with its own constitution and legislature (6) |
| ATLAS | He was condemned to support the sky on his shoulders with a geography book |
| RICHARDPOSNER | Author of "Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution and the Courts" |
| BAGEHOT | Walter, economist, author of The English Constitution and Lombard Street (7) |
| WORMS | City where Luther was condemned as a heretic |
| CATHAR | Tea brought round at one was condemned by the orthodox |
| OATES | Priest who was condemned to life imprisonment for fabricating the supposed Popish Plot conspiracy (5) |
| CARLOPONTI | Who was condemned by the Vatican when he married Sophia Loren, 22 years his junior? (5,5) |
| AKHMATOVA | Anna ____'s poetry work was condemned by Stalinist authorities but, rather than emigrating, she remained as a witness |
