| BELGRANO | Argentinian military leader - a comic swallowing occasional lager (8) |
| GORGON | Continue swallowing occasional rage with someone who is petrifying (6) |
| MOHAMMED | Religious leader (a healer) cured flesh, receiving credit as a teacher (8) |
| HEADREST | Top support to give the leader a spell ... (8) |
| QUISLING | Norwegian war-time leader, a byword for treason (8) |
| OVERLORD | Supreme leader a€“ D-day operation (8) |
| BREZHNEV | Former Soviet leader, a follower never moving about zero hour initially (8) |
| DOGEARED | Shabby old Italian leader, a communist (3-5) |
| HEADACHE | Problem caused by leader, a revolutionary |
| DEVALERA | Victory secured by leader, a terrible old Irish statesman (2,6) |
| AARON | A lord - no leader, a leader's brother |
| IMAM | From "leader", a mosque's prayer guide, with a legendary example said to have fainted, swooned or "bayildi" from either delight or the cost of a flavourful dish of stuffed baked aubergines (4) |
| DONATED | Mafia leader, a yob of yesteryear, made a charitable gesture (7) |
| MUNTJAC | Host welcomes military clique's demoted leader, a beast (7) |
| ALEXANDER | Famous leader, a classic lover snatching a kiss |
| PANAMAHAT | Criticize a religious leader a degree less for informal headgear |
| RASTA | Religious leader, a saint and a cult follower |
| TOY | To a youth leader, a childish thing |
| LAG | Left a gang leader a prisoner (3) |
| ACCRA | Capital provided by a country's leader a€“ endless stuff (5) |
