| GRASSROOTS | Bottom-up, as a political movement |
| CAPSIZE | Turn bottom up, as a boat |
| MOTTO | 'Head off, bottom up' as a slogan (5) |
| CARDCARRYING | Really dedicated, as to a political movement |
| COMMUNISM | No music playing as 2,000 join a political movement (9) |
| COMMUNISMS | Supporters of a political movement advocating a classless society and workers controlling the means of production (10) |
| JACOBITE | Supporter of a political movement to restore the Stuarts as kings of England, Scotland and Ireland (8) |
| MAUMAU | Name a political movement among the Kikuyu of Kenya, aimed at driving out European settlers (3,3) |
| MAGA | Acronym for a political movement popularised by Donald Trump since 2016 (4) |
| WARCHEST | A fund to finance a project such as a political campaign (3,5) |
| POLITY | A country as a political entity (6) |
| AGITPROP | A lot of Republicans will accept it (public relations) as a political tool |
| ROSETTE | Trees to be represented as a political favour |
| NATIONAL | New beginning for Laotian organisation as a political party (8) |
| AFFRONT | Offend as a political group, collecting fine |
| SEEK | Try to gain, as a political office |
| STUMP | Work the audience as a political campaigner |
| EXCON | One's got out of jail as a political defector? |
| PARTYLINE | Shared telephone as a political policy |
| VOTE | Retirees, considered as a political power: the grey .... (4) |
