| CANNING | British statesman who died only a few months after becoming prime minister (7) |
| GLADSTONE | Left has recruited young men, first of them becoming prime minister |
| LORDHOME | He renounced his hereditary peerages on becoming prime minister in 1963 (4,4) |
| CASTRO | Cuba's leader since becoming prime minister in 1959, Fidel ... |
| ONESIDED | Singles match died, only one showed up (3 5) |
| DEUCE | Dickens, with reason, died only once |
| LEADERS | Top story's on earls regularly becoming prime ministers? (7) |
| LUMUMBA | The first PM of the Congo Republic, forced out of office after a few months, and later killed (7) |
| RAFFLES | British statesman who founded modern Singapore and London Zoo (7) |
| PLUMBER | Skilled worker gets ideal job at the end of a few months |
| ERDOGAN | After becoming president of Turkey in 2014, he expanded governmental powers |
| TOOFFER | "I have nothing ... but blood, toil, tears and sweat," Winston Churchill told the British nation On May 10, 1940, upon becoming PM (2,5) |
| ROCKETS | More than 8,000 of these were fired at Israel in the past few months (7) |
| FRASIER | Character in Cheers whose spin-off series launched six months after the last episode (7) |
| ASQUITH | Expression of surprise about insignificant person becoming PM |
| SUMMER | A computer that lasts only a few months (6) |
| IMMORAL | Bad months after one's exam (7) |
| BACKEND | Bad neck, twisted in the last few months? (4,3) |
| YOUTUBE | Company sold in 2006 for $1.65 billion - 21 months after it was founded |
| GARFIELD | President of the USA for only a few months in 1881 (8) |
