| VAJPAYEE | Atal Bihari ___, Indian poet and statesman; Prime Minister 1996 and 1998-2004 (8) |
| TAGORE | Rabindranath ___, Indian poet and philosopher awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 (6) |
| INDIA | Country of which Atal Bihari Vajpayee became prime minister in 1998 |
| SECULAR | "If India is not ____, then India is not India at all" (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) |
| SETH | Vikram ---, Indian poet and novelist who wrote A Suitable Boy (4) |
| JAVED | ____ Akhtar, Indian poet, lyricist, screenwriter and political activist |
| RISHI | Indian poet in a Paris hideaway (5) |
| PINDAR | Mean to entertain Indian poet (6) |
| NAIDU | Greek character takes help of Indian poet (5) |
| SRI | Indian poet ___ Aurobindo |
| LEEK | 'Musselburgh', 'Atal', 'Chef's White' and F1 'Below Zero' are all varieties of this vegetable (4) |
| HIBERNIA | Itinerant Bihari went around east and then North Ireland in Roman times (8) |
| ATAL | ___ Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India |
| DEREKWALCOTT | West Indian poet who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1992 (5,7) |
| NEWIN | Burmese general and statesman; Prime Minister 1958-60, and 1962-74 and President 1962-81 (2,3) |
| JUANPERON | Army colonel and statesman who became President of Argentina three times between 1946 and 1974 (4,5) |
| FIDELCASTRO | Cuban revolutionary and statesman who ruled as prime minister from 1959-76 and president from 1976-2008 (5,6) |
| SINGH | Dr. Manmohan ____. Indian economist and statesman who was the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014 |
| JUAN | Argentine soldier and statesman; president 1946-55 and 1973-74 (4,5) |
| PERON | Argentine soldier and statesman; president 1946-55 and 1973-74 (4,5) |
