| NORIEGA | Manuel -, military leader; de facto head of state of Panama from 1983-89 (7) |
| NIGELLA | Genus of love-in-a-mist; or, the first name of the food writer whose father served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983-89 (7) |
| HATCHES | Emerges from one's shell in Panama from revolutionary society (7) |
| MANUEL | Mr Noriega, soldier and de facto leader of Panama from 198389 (6) |
| HONECKER | Erich ___, head of state of East Germany from 1976-89 (8) |
| MAO | First head of state of the People's Republic of China |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri _, head of state of the Soviet Union (1983-84) |
| AMIN | Idi ?, head of state of Uganda from 1971-79 |
| PRESIDENT | Head of state of a republic - Barack Obama was elected to become the 44th holder of the US office |
| SANDRAMASON | Head of state of Barbados, replacing Queen Elizabeth II on November 30 2021 |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail ---, head of state of the Soviet Union 1988-91 (9) |
| EMIR | Title of the heads of state of Kuwait and Qatar (4) |
| ROLFF | Wolfgang ..... , 1983-89 West Germany and 1986-89 Bayer Leverkusen defender (5) |
| BEGLIN | Jim, 1984-86 Republic of Ireland and 1983-89 Liverpool defender (6) |
| PETAIN | Head of State of Vichy France (6) |
| EAMON | Former Irish leader De Valera |
| LAWSON | Nigel, British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-89 (6) |
| SALE | "_ of the Century"; 1983-89 game show |
| ORTEGA | Katherine ___, 1983-89 Treasurer of the United States |
| NIGELLAWSON | Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-89 (5,6) |
