| DAMP | Leading democrat and representative is wet (4) |
| SEED | Understand leading Democrat to be chosen toumament player (4) |
| PUMP | Persistently question power union leader and representative (4) |
| IMPS | Elected representative is cavorting with laeries and daemons (4) |
| POLS | Senators and representatives: Abbr. |
| ACHE | Goal Midge, US lawyer, revolutionary, gangster, Liberal Democrat and heartless authority put up with 24-hour pain (7,4,3,3) |
| LEFT | Democrats and Socialists, with "the" |
| DRIP | Sounds like ivy is wet (4) |
| EARS | A naive person is 'wet behind the ___' (4) |
| REIN | Harness is wet, we're told (4) |
| MUSH | Half of common fungus is wet pulpy mass |
| NEWS | "In other ___, water is wet" |
| AIDEDECAMP | Decide differences between American leaders and representative right-hand man (4-2-4) |
| ADONIS | Godfather, eliminating leading Democrat, is no criminal (6) |
| DEMONSTRATE | Expostulate and hold protest march? Leading Democrat ousted by Republican (11) |
| REMONSTRATE | Expostulate and hold protest march? Leading Democrat ousted by Republican (11) |
| PELOSI | Pole is slippery for leading Democrat in the US House of Representatives (6) |
| RANGEL | Congressman Charles, a leading Democrat fund-raiser |
| PARANOID | Obsessively anxious soldier supported by leading Democrat (8) |
| COMPERE | Commanding officer and representative before getting MC (7) |
