| IDEOLOGICAL | About a body of political ideas (11) |
| STRAITTALK | Address about a body of water? |
| PECTORALMUSCLE | Calmer couplets about a body part |
| BOLSHEVIK | A supporter of Lenin and his political ideas after the Russian Revolution (9) |
| PROPAGANDA | Information used to promote political ideas (10) |
| RED | One with colourful political ideas? (3) |
| RIGHTON | Claim vacuous old men in keeping with latest political ideas |
| DOMINOTHEORY | Ooh, modernity is tricky! That's one political idea (6,6) |
| HOMERULE | Classical poet, using long epic, starts divisive political idea |
| DOMINO | ____ theory, political idea that, if one thing falls, others will too (6) |
| NATIONALISM | Advocate of political independence for a country (11) |
| DOUBLETHINK | Capacity to accept contradictory beliefs, often as a result of political indoctrination (11) |
| PLEBISCITES | Perhaps primarily it is celebs changing events of political nature? (11) |
| ELECTIONEER | Eastern elite once meddled before rapid introduction of political campaigner (11) |
| IRONCURTAIN | Press cut Iran out of political division (4,7) |
| SEPARATISMS | Advocates of political separation |
| WHISTLESTOP | Descriptive of political candidate's tour to Welsh pits in disarray (7-4) |
| PLATFORM | From "ground plan" , 'flat shape", a raised level, surface of planks etc, such as a stage for speakers, a place for mounting guns, the floor of a bus or a pavement for rail passengers; or, a basis of |
| MARTINEAU | Generally acknowledged as the first woman sociologist, author of Illustrations of Political Economy, a distant relation of the Duchess of Cambridge (9) |
| LEFT | Name given to a broad range of activist movements of the 1950s and 1960s, rejecting traditional forms of political organisation (3,4) |
