| STEVENSON | Adlai ___ (1900 - 65), politician who was the Democrat candidate for the US Presidency in 1952 and 1956 (9) |
| DUKAKIS | Michael, Democratic nominee for the US presidency in 1988 (7) |
| JOHNSON | Lyndon B. --- succeeded to the US presidency following the assassination of John F Kennedy (7) |
| ISRAEL | Nation which offered Albert Einstein the presidency in 1952 (6) |
| SEETHED | Notice the Democrat was agitated (7) |
| THUMPED | Upper-class politician embraced by the Democrat gets beaten (7) |
| JOHNKERRY | Democrat candidate in the 2004 US presidential contest (4,5) |
| DEVOTED | Staunch Democrat candidate finally elected (7) |
| DOLE | Robert, US Republican senator who sought nomination for the presidency in 1980 and 1988 (4) |
| LEPEN | Marine ___, politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017 and 2022 (2,3) |
| BORGIA | Cesare, Italian cardinal and politician who was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince (6) |
| BEVAN | Aneurin ---, Welsh Labour politician who was the Minister of Health responsible for the formation of the NHS (5) |
| ASTOR | US-born Conservative politician who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1919) (5) |
| JONES | Politician who was the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2019 (5.5) |
| JENNY | Politician who was the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2019 (5.5) |
| CESARE | Italian cardinal and politician who was the model for Machiavelli's The Prince (6,6) |
| SANDERS | Bernie _, unsuccessful candidate for the 2016 and 2020 Democratic nomination for the US Presidential election (7) |
| VACLAVHAVEL | Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician who was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia |
| IGLESIAS | Name the Spanish politician who was the founder of the Spanish Socialist party, Pablo ... (8) |
| GLENN | John, astronaut who sought the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1984 (5) |
