| TAMMANY | --- Hall, central organisation of the Democratic Party in New York county (7) |
| BLUE | Representative colour of the Democratic Party in the U.S. (4) |
| FAIRDEAL | The principles of the Democratic party under the leadership of US President Harry S. Truman (4,4) |
| RODGERS | William ___, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (7) |
| LUALABA | River of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a headstream of the Congo River (7) |
| HOEDOWN | Oddly, Hoover now wild about Democratic Party in US (7) |
| NIAGARA | New York county north of Erie |
| SAOTOME | Island in the Gulf of Guinea that forms part of the Democratic Republic of ... ... e Principe (3,4) |
| OBAMA | United States senator who became the nominee for the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential elect |
| GALA | Met ___ (ultra-fancy annual party in New York) |
| TIOGA | New York county near pennsylvania (or pennsylvania county near new York) |
| YUDHOYONO | In 2004, which army general became the sixth president of Indonesia and founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia? (9) |
| WILLIAMS | Shirley ---, politician who was one of the Gang of Four rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (8) |
| UNDO | Ruin party in New York? (4) |
| SARATOGA | New York county with the Mohawk River to the south |
| HIAWATHA | Legendary chief of the Native American Onondaga tribe, credited with the organisation of the Five Nations (8) |
| GANG | _ of Four, breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (4) |
| ESSEX | New York county in the Adirondacks |
| MARKETING | Organisation of the sale of a product (9) |
| OKAPI | Striped African mammal closely related to the giraffe, found in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
