| KHMERROUGE | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 |
| ROUGE | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHMER | Followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia who seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Nikita ---, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-64 (10) |
| RAULCASTRO | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 2011 to 2021 (4,6) |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the majority faction who seized power in Russia in 1917 (9) |
| ERSHAD | Hussain Mohammed, Bangladeshi soldier who seized power in a coup in 1982 (6) |
| STALIN | Joseph ---, nom de guerre of the dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6) |
| JOSEPHSTALIN | Dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6,6) |
| LEONIDBREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| POLITBURO | The former central policy-making and governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (9) |
| MAOZEDONG | Chairman of the Communist Party of China who died in 1976 (3,6) |
| BORIS | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (5) |
| PASTERNAK | Russian author forced to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (9) |
| DIAZCANEL | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba who succeeded Raul Castro on 19 April 2021 (6,4-5) |
| PRAVDA | Official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6) |
| DIOMEDES | Hero in Greek mythology who seized the sacred image of the goddess Pallas Athena (8) |
| STEPHEN | King of England 1135-54 who seized the throne on the death of Henry I (7) |
