| PUTIN | Former KGB agent who became president of Russia in 2012 |
| AMOS | Talent agent who became a "Famous" cookie founder |
| LUBYANKA | Former KGB HQ |
| VLADIMIRPUTIN | Politician who won a fourth term as President of Russia in 2018 (8,5) |
| NEMEROV | Alexander ___ (president of Russia in "The Sum of All Fears") |
| BORIS | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| YELTSIN | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| BRIDGEOFSPIES | 2015 film starring Tom Hanks which is about a lawyer who negotiates the release of a U.S. pilot in exchange for a Soviet KGB agent: 3 wds. |
| ANYAAMASOVA | KGB Agent XXX of "The Spy Who Loved Me" |
| SITHOLE | Reverend Ndabaningi, who became president of Zanu in Zimbabwe in 1963 (7) |
| VOLODYMYRZELENSKYY | Former comedian and actor who became president of Ukraine in 2019 |
| PRINCEWILLIAM | Member of the British royal family who became president of the FA in 2006 (6,7) |
| HUERTA | Victoriano ---, Mexican general who became president of the country by coup in 1913 (6) |
| BETANCOURT | Anticommunist politician who became president of Venezuela after a coup in 1945 |
| EMMANUEL | - Macron, politician who became president of France in 2017 (8) |
| CHAMORRO | Violeta, politician who became president of Nicaragua in 1990 (8) |
| TAMBO | Oliver, South African politician who became president of the ANC in 1977 (5) |
| LYNDONJOHNSON | Who became president of the US on the assassination of John F. Kennedy? (6,7) |
| PERON | Soldier who became president of Argentina (5) |
| SUNYATSEN | Physician who became president of China |
