| AROI | Kenas ___, former president of Nauru |
| RHEE | Syngman ___, former president of Korea |
| NASSER | Gamal Abdel ___, former President of Egypt (6) |
| SILVA | Lula da ___, former president of Brazil |
| HALE | Baroness ___, former president of the UK supreme court (4) |
| SADR | Bani-__ (former president of Iran) |
| BOK | Derek ___, former president of Harvard |
| MANDELA | Nelson _, former president of South Africa (7) |
| CHAVEZ | Hugo _, former president of Venezuela (6) |
| GAY | Claudine ___, former president of Harvard University |
| EQUATOR | It's just north of Nauru |
| DEMONYM | "Nauruan," for a native of Nauru, e.g. |
| TAMBO | Oliver ___, former president of the ANC who died in 1993 (5) |
| CALDERON | Vicente ___, former president of Atletico Madrid, after whom their stadium is named |
| CASTRO | Raul and Fidel ___, former presidents of Cuba (6) |
| INAUGURAL | First speech of Nauru gal I composed and made by 2 & 6 (9) |
| YAREN | Largest district and de facto capital of Nauru, created in 1968 (5) |
| BENZVI | Yitzhak ___--Former president on the NIS 100 note (6) |
| RUTHENE | Former Ukrainian in Nauru, then Ecuador |
| OCEANIA | Locale of Tuvalu and Nauru |
