| MAOIST | Advocate of a Chinese leader |
| MAOJACKET | An item of clothing popularised by a Chinese leader (3-6) |
| MOUSETRAPS | Belts for a Chinese leader? |
| MAO | Why leave Mayo to get a Chinese leader? (3) |
| JEANMONNET | An early advocate of a Common Market in Europe, Jennifer Eaglehead briefly lived in Manton, but travelled around a lot (4,6) |
| STATIST | An advocate of a centralised form of control over social and economic affairs |
| ISTA | Suffix denoting a specialist or advocate of a belief, as fashion- or bar- |
| ACTIVIST | An active, vigorous advocate of a cause (8) |
| PROPONENT | Advocate (of a theory, etc) |
| IDEOLOGUE | Advocate of a particular political dogma (9) |
| ANARCH | Advocate of a lawless state, archaically |
| HIGHPRIEST | Chief advocate of a belief (4,6) |
| EXPONENT | Advocate of a theory |
| EPICURUS | Ancient Greek advocate of a happy life based on ataraxia and aponia (8) |
| HOLIDAYBYTHESEA | Ida is holy surrounded by these leading advocates of a coastal vacation (7,2,3,3) |
| MANCHU | A member of a Chinese people of Manchuria or former dynasty (6) |
| CHANCE | The luck of a Chinese getting a portion of rice |
| EGGROLL | US version of a Chinese-style snack, eaten as part of dim sum (3,4) |
| REDGUARD | A member of a Chinese youth movement that attempted to effect the Cultural Revolution |
| SHARPEI | Dog of a Chinese breed with a wrinkled nose (4,3) |
