| RAJAH | Aha! JR has now become a ruler! (5) |
| GENES | Ken Griffey, Jr. has good ones |
| DANCING | ___ On Ice, celebrity skating show on which former participant, 6D, has now become a 51D (7) |
| NING | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (4) |
| LI | Who is this gymnast, who won six medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which, incidentally, was the first Olympics in which his country was taking part (it has now become a sporting powerhouse)? (2) |
| MAJOR | Something a college junior has that a freshman usually doesn't |
| DAVID | First name of Liberal Democrat peer, Baron Alliance, an Iranian-British businessman; he has a home in Didsbury, and the Manchester Business School has now been renamed in his honour (5) |
| SNAIL | An aquatic or terrestrial gastropod mollusc with a spirally coiled shell; the 'Greater Bermuda land ___' variety, once believed extinct, has now been re-established, thanks to work by Chester Zoo (5) |
| OWNER | One who has now changed - but with some hesitation (5) |
| ISLAM | Devoted followers that Raducanu has now secured? (5) |
| SUDAN | A country star has now turned around |
| COCACOLA | First sold in 1886 in Atlanta, US as a medicinal tonic, this drink has now become an internationally renowned beverage (4,4) |
| MANDY | Paddy Kirk's former flame, with whom he has now reunited in Emmerdale (5,6) |
| THIS | "So. Much. ___." (typical Reddit comment that has now become ironic) |
| PENNY | ___ Whiting - NZ sailing school founder who has now retired |
| INCA | In camp, no politician was a ruler! |
| REGENT | About that little gentleman - he could be a ruler! |
| TSAR | Dancer returned from a back street to become a ruler (4) |
| PRESIDENT | Pressure on citizen to become a ruler (9) |
| POTENTATE | Poet at net could become a ruler (9) |
