| MAOZEDONG | Chinese Communist leader (3,6) |
| ZHOUENLAI | Chinese communist leader |
| DENG | Chinese communist leader |
| MAO | ___ Tsetung, Chinese Communist leader (3) |
| MAOTSETUNG | Chinese Communist leader whose speeches and writings were put in his Little Red Book (3,3,4) |
| LONGMARCH | 1930s trek made by Chinese Communists (4,5) |
| LIU | Chinese Communist leader ___ Shaoqi |
| HUA | Mao's successor as Chinese Communist leader |
| PIAO | Former Chinese Communist military leader Lin ___ |
| MAOISM | Chinese communist doctrine |
| MOIST | Slightly wet Chinese communist article discounted |
| MAOIST | Advocate of Chinese communist chairman (6) |
| DENGXIAOPING | Politician who became Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1954 (4,8) |
| REDGUARD | Politically active students who followed Mao Zedong's call to revive the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese Communist Party (3,5) |
| TAOISM | Switching sides, Chinese communist finds Lao Zi's philosophy |
| LIPENG | Chinese Communist politician; prime minister from 1988 to 1998 and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003 (2,4) |
| ENLAI | Zhou ___, Chinese communist statesman; first premier of the People's Republic of China (1949-76) (2,3) |
| LINBIAO | Chinese communist statesman; designated successor of Mao Zedong from 1966 until his death in 1971 (3,4) |
| SHANGHAI | Largest city of China, in which the Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921 (8) |
| TSETUNG | Chinese Communist noted for his "little red book" (3,3-4) |