| EMISSARY | An agent or messenger representing a government or head of state (8) |
| BROKERED | ___ a deal: acted as an agent or middleman? |
| OUTDOORS | Trump or head of state in the garden, perhaps (8) |
| EMETIC | An agent or drug that induces vomiting (6) |
| MONARCH | Nation's ruler or head of state (7) |
| CHAPITER | With styles including Byzantine basket, Gothic crocket, tower of the winds and transitional water-leaf, the capital or head of a column (8) |
| SUPERIOR | Stupidly sue prior or head of monastery (8) |
| LAUREATE | Poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, poet _ (8) |
| OFFICIAL | Approved by a government or by someone in authority (8) |
| SEDATION | Administration of a sedative agent or drug (8) |
| BAILIFFS | Agents or stewards of a landlord or landowner (8) |
| STIMULUS | Agent or action provoking a response in an organism |
| AUREOLA | In art, a golden or luminous cloud represented encircling the body or head of a saint or other sacred personage; or, a halo around the sun or moon (7) |
| GOASTERN | Agents (or alternatives) to reverse mainly (2,6) |
| TWENTYONE | Number of shots fired in a gun salute to honour royalty or heads of state (6-3) |
| FEDORA | US agent or head of agency in 'Top Gear' (6) |
| GRANT | A sum of money provided by a government or public fund to finance educational study, overseas aid or building repairs (5) |
| PROPAGANDA | The organised dissemination of information to assist or damage the cause of a government or movement (10) |
| COUP | From "blow with the fist", word for a seizure of power from a government; or, any masterstroke or triumph (4) |
| SHEIK | Arab leader or head of an Arab tribe, family or village (5) |
