| KLEBER | Napoleon's successor as commander in Egypt |
| ATATURK | Title meaning 'Father of the Country' given to Turkey's first president, Mustafa Kemal, who served as Commander in the Gallipoli campaign |
| SUPREMO | Drink more in mess as commander |
| FIENNES | Joseph ___ stars as Commander Fred Waterford in the dystopian TV series, The Handmaid's Tale (7) |
| SEACAPTAIN | Indian fitting in, by the sound of it, as commander of vessel (3,7) |
| ADMIRAL | Almost look up to Capone as commander |
| IMPERATORE | ____ Caesare (abl abs): with Caesar as commander |
| BATTLESTARGALACTICA | 1970's American sci-fi TV show featuring Lorne Greene as Commander Adama |
| GALACTICA | Space adventure series of the late 1970s on which Ottawa-born actor Lorne Greene starred as Commander Adama, "Battlestar ___" |
| DONITZ | Karl ___, German admiral named as Adolf Hitler's successor as head of state in April 1945 |
| PELOSI | Gephardt's successor as Minority Leader in the House |
| POPE | Alexander's predecessor as religious leader, successor as poet |
| SADAT | Nasser's successor as Egypt's leader |
| NERO | Claudius’s successor as Roman emperor in AD54 |
| EDMUNDI | Known as "the Elder", Athelstan's successor as King of England who was murdered by an exiled robber during a brawl and buried at Glastonbury Abbey (6,1) |
| NERVA | Domitian's successor as Roman emperor shown in finer vases (5) |
| RAMOS | Aquino's successor as Philippine president |
| HOYER | Boehner's successor as House majority leader |
| ATTLEE | Churchill's successor as P.M.: 1945 |
| MOORE | Connery's successor as Bond |
