| LEONID | Brezhnev, former leader of the Soviet Union (6) |
| NIKITA | ___ Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union (6) |
| STALIN | Former leader of the Soviet Union |
| FARAGE | Nigel _, former leader of the UK Independence Party and current leader of the Brexit Party (6) |
| ORTEGA | Soldiers fetch back a former leader of the Sandinistas (6) |
| CORBYN | Former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy _ (6) |
| JEREMY | ___ Corbyn, former leader of the Labour Party (6) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser __, former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (6) |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri ___, leader of the Soviet Union (as General Secretary of its Communist Party) who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 (8) |
| GORBACHEV | Former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail ... |
| VEERED | Last letter in full from Brezhnev communist backed? The opposite |
| BREZHNEV | The leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982 (6,8) |
| SALTII | Treaty signed by Carter and Brezhnev |
| TROIKA | USSR's Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny |
| LENIN | Revolutionary who was the first leader of the Soviet Union (5) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita - (10) |
| FFION | ___ Hague, wife of the former leader of the Conservative Party (5) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin, Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor as leader of the Soviet Union (9) |
| NICKCLEGG | Former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Deputy Prime Minister of the Coalition government from 2010-2015 (4,5) |
| CHIANGKAISHEK | Chinese Nationalist politician and revolutionary; former leader of the Republic of China (6,3-4) |
