| APPARAT | Administrative system of a communist party (7) |
| POLITBURO | Policymaking body of a Communist party |
| PIONEER | Japanese electronics company - or a member of a communist youth organisation? (7) |
| REDNESS | Rosiness of a Communist-owned Scottish loch (7) |
| DANELAW | That part of England, colonised by Viking invaders in late ninth century, with its own legal and administrative system (7) |
| TANKIAN | Serj of System of a Down |
| NETWORK | Complex system of a group of broadcasting stations |
| GRAMMAR | Rules governing the system of a language, including those stated in morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonology and semantics (7) |
| ECOLOGY | Natural systems of a region (7) |
| MYTHUS | Latin rendering of a Greek word for a symbolical or traditional story; a body of fables, folk tales or legends; the underlying belief system of a society expressed allegorically through art, drama or |
| REDSNAPPER | Person taking photos of a communist swimmer (3,7) |
| REDACTION | Revised version of a Communist battle (9) |
| READ | Studied the utterance of a Communist (4) |
| CACHET | Prestige of a Communist revolutionary in Connecticut |
| DECLARED | Stated: "Last month Liberal will get ahead of a Communist" |
| CASTRO | Company or retired, old leader of a communist country (6) |
| OVULE | Part of the reproductive system of a seed plant that develops into a seed when fertilised, made up of the embryo sac, the surrounding nucellus and one or two protective integuments (5) |
| HYPNOTIZE | Shared title of a 1997 Notorious BIG #1 song and a 2005 System of a Down #1 album |
| BUREAUCRAT | An official who works in a large administrative system and follows rules too strictly (10) |
| BUREAUCRACY | Administrative system (involving red tape?) (11) |
