| MELONI | Giorgia ___, Italian politician who became prime minister in 2022 (6) |
| INDIRA | Born to Kamala and Jawaharlal Nehru, who became Prime Minister of India? (6,6) |
| GANDHI | Born to Kamala and Jawaharlal Nehru. who became Prime Minister of India? (6,6) |
| ANTALL | Teacher and historian who became prime minister of post-communist Hungary (6) |
| THERESA | --- May, Conservative politician who became Prime Minister in July 2016 (7) |
| MORRISON | Scott, Australian politician who became prime minister in 2018 (8) |
| PITT | William ___ (1759 - 1806), Tory politician who became Prime Minister in 1783 (4) |
| ALBANESE | Anthony ---, politician who became prime minister of Australia in May 2022 (8) |
| BLAIR | British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) (5) |
| SILVIO | First name of Italian politician and businessman Berlusconi (6) |
| GREECE | Kyriakos Mitsotakis became prime minister of this EU state in 2019 (6) |
| CEYLON | Name of Sri Lanka at the time Sirimavo Bandaranaike became prime minister (6) |
| RIFAI | Who became prime minister of Jordan in 1973 and again in 1985? (4-1) |
| PADEREWSKI | Ignace Jan ___, pianist and composer who became prime minister of Poland in 1919 (10) |
| IMRANKHAN | Former cricketer who became prime minister of Pakistan in 2018 (5,4) |
| ITALY | EU country in which Mario Draghi resigned as prime minister in 2022 (5) |
| LIZ | Truss who was very briefly U.K. prime minister in 2022 |
| WILLIAMPITT | Tory who became prime minister of England at age 24 |
| PUTIN | Former President who became Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir ... |
| BORISJOHNSON | Former Mayor of London who became prime minister last month (5,7) |
