| SADAT | Anwar ___ (1918-81), third President of Egypt (5) |
| ANWAR | ___ Sadat, the third President of Egypt, who was assassinated in 1981 (5) |
| CELAL | 3rd President of Turkey Bayar |
| AGNEW | Spiro T ___ (1918 - 96), a former vice president of the USA (5) |
| HOSNI | Fourth president of Egypt, whose 30 years in office ended in the Arab Spring of 2011 (5,7) |
| GAMAL | The first name of the second president of Egypt |
| MORSI | Mohamed ---, the president of Egypt 2012-13 (5) |
| BIDEN | The third president in a row with a five-letter surname (convenient for Mini crosswords!) |
| POOLE | Ernest ___: 1918 Pulitzer winner |
| NASSER | Gamal Abdel ___ (1918-70), second President of Egypt (6) |
| THOMASJEFFERSON | Third president of the U.S. who wrote his country's Declaration of Independence (6,9) |
| VALERA | Eamon de ---, Irish politician; three-times Taoiseach of Ireland and third President of Ireland (6) |
| HARRISON | The ninth or twenty-third president of the United States |
| JEFFERSON | Third president of the United States (9) |
| IDIAMIN | Despotic third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 (3,4) |
| MOTLANTHE | Third president of South Africa (2008-9) (9) |
| KGALEMA | Third president of South Africa (2008-9) (7) |
| DEVALERA | Third president of Ireland |
| ILOILO | Third president of Fiji |
| LOURENCO | Joao _, 3rd president of Angola, assumed office September 26 2017 (8) |
