| OWENITE | Follower of co-founder of the British Social Democratic Party (7) |
| ASCOT | Royal -; event forming part of the British social season which is attended annually by the Queen who arrives each day in a horse-drawn landau (5) |
| INC | Follower of 'Co.,' often |
| RODGERS | William ___, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (7) |
| SHIRLEY | _ Williams, politician who was one of the Gang of Four rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (7) |
| VIBRANT | Girl finding British social worker full of life (7) |
| MENSHEVIK | Member of the moderate non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party before the October Revolution of 1917 (9) |
| KEEPING | _ Up Appearances, 1990s British social snob sitcom (7) |
| TAMMANY | -- Hall is the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York County (7) |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party (9) |
| POORLAW | Early British social security act: 2 wds |
| DAVIDSTEEL | Scottish leader of the UK's Liberal Party from 1976 until its 1988 merger with the Social Democratic Party (5,5) |
| WILLIAMS | Shirley ---, politician who was one of the Gang of Four rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (8) |
| WELS | Otto -, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1919-39 (4) |
| OWEN | David, founder member of the Social Democratic Party (4) |
| KOIZUMI | Junichiro ___, Japanese statesman; prime minister and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2001 to 2006 (7) |
| GANG | _ of Four, breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (4) |
| BOLSHEVIKS | What were members of a radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party known as? (10) |
| OLOFPALME | Assassinated in 1986, which Swedish prime minister was head of the Social Democratic Party and led S |
| DUKAKIS | Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic party presidential nominee, defeated by George Bush (7) |
