| PETAIN | Head of State of Vichy France, 1940-44 (6) |
| VICHY | Capital of unoccupied France, 1940-44 |
| ALLIER | Department in central France that includes the city and spa resort of Vichy (6) |
| LOREAL | Owner of Vichy skincare products |
| ROBERT | Secretary of State of England, 1596-1612, who became the first Earl of Salisbury (6) |
| MAO | First head of state of the People's Republic of China |
| PRESIDENT | Head of state of a republic - Barack Obama was elected to become the 44th holder of the US office |
| HONECKER | Erich ___, head of state of East Germany from 1976-89 (8) |
| AMIN | Idi ?, head of state of Uganda from 1971-79 |
| EMIR | Head of state of Kuwait |
| SANDRAMASON | Head of state of Barbados, replacing Queen Elizabeth II on November 30 2021 |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri _, head of state of the Soviet Union (1983-84) |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail ---, head of state of the Soviet Union 1988-91 (9) |
| NORIEGA | Manuel ?, military leader; de facto head of state of Panama from 1983-89 |
| BATISTA | Fulgencio ___, president of Cuba from 1940-44 and 1952-59 (7) |
| BARBARIC | Uncivilised places to drink one discovered near centre of Vichy (8) |
| PUPPETSTATE | Vichy France, to Nazi Germany |
| BLUM | Leon **** , three-time French prime minister who opposed Vichy France (4) |
| GERMANISED | Is gendarme worried, as Vichy France may have been? |
| RULER | Head measure of state of things? to get (5) |
