| AGRIPPA | Marcus, Roman general who was chief adviser of Augustus (7) |
| BANGKOK | City where the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh took place. (7) |
| THEODORA | Byzantine empress (527-48), wife and chief adviser of Justinian I (8) |
| SARGENT | Sir Malcolm ___, English conductor and self-styled 'ambassador of music' who was chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 to 1967 (7) |
| COLBERT | French comptroller-general of finances 1661-83; chief adviser to Louis XIV (7) |
| BRADLEY | Omar -, US Army general who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1949-53 (7) |
| CRASSUS | Marcus Licinius _, Roman general who allied with Caesar and Pompey to form the First Triumvirate in 60 BC (7) |
| CASSIUS | Roman general who led the conspiracy against Julius Caesar (7) |
| TIPSTER | Adviser of a sort (REST PIT anagram) (7) |
| AGRICOLA | Roman general who was father-in-law of the historian, Tacitus (8) |
| MARKANTONY | Roman general who was the lover of Egyptian queen Cleopatra (4,6) |
| POMPEY | Roman general who was murdered after a quarrel with Julius Caesar (6) |
| NEOCONS | Hawkish advisers of Dubya |
| WOLSEY | Orchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6) |
| ALANBROOKE | Viscount ..., soldier who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1941-46 (10) |
| YITZHAKRABIN | Israeli prime minister who was Chief of Staff during the Six-Day War (7,5) |
| PETAIN | Philippe ___, French marshal who was Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 |
| HARLANFSTONE | Hard guy who was Chief Justice of the U. S., |
| GABIASHKENAZI | Israeli politican who was Chief of the IDF from 2007 to 2011 (4,9) |
| OCHS | Adolph who was chief of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935 |
