| IRONCURTAIN | What Churchill declared in 1946 to have descended across Europe, dividing the West from the Communis |
| LAW | Rules the West from Californian city |
| XOLOTL | Quetzalcoatl was the symbol of death and resurrection. With his companion, a dog-headed god, he was said to have descended to the underground hell of Mictlan to gather the bones of the ancient dead. |
| FOOTBALL | Irish team sport believed to have descended from the ancient contest of caid, Gaelic ... |
| ATTILA | Called the Scourge of God, he led the Huns across Europe in the fifth century, ... the Hun |
| INSECT | Believed to have descended from a crustacean ancestor, a word for a hexapod, such as any one of those found fossilised in Devonian rocks (6) |
| UNESCO | Agency created in 1946 to promote international collaboration in education, science and culture (6) |
| UNICEF | Which UN agency was founded in 1946 to help improve the lives of children and their mothers? (6) |
| COGNATE | Dance in eastern clubs coming to west from the same source (7) |
| OKIE | One going west from the Dust Bowl, as depicted in "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| BEA | British airline founded in 1946 to cover domestic and European routes (1,1,1) |
| ATOLL | For example Bikini, whose inhabitants were relocated in 1946 to make way for US nuclear tests (5) |
| MEETING | Winston Churchill declared, "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the gr |
| CISITALIA | Italian small car builder, active from 1946 to 1949, and sold off in 1952 - its main claim to fame is the ground-breaking 202 GT design of 1947 (9) |
| TRYGVELIE | Norwegian Labour politician who served as the first Secretary General of the United Nations from 1946 to 1953 (6,3) |
| THEFEW | The tiny band of Battle of Britain fighters - Churchill declared that never had so many owed so much to them (3,3) |
| AEC | A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States. |
| OUTWARD | Blooming drag to go west from the centre (7) |
| MGB | Org. that functioned as the USSR's secret police from 1946 to 1953 |
| BEAUTY | --- And The Beast, fairy tale which appears in variants across Europe and has inspired numerous films and stage productions (6) |
