| LLOSA | Nobel Prize-winning novelist who stood unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 (5) |
| WALDHEIM | A former secretary-general of the UN who became embroiled in controversy when running for the presidency of Austria (8) |
| GAVINESLER | Former presenter of Newsnight who stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for Change UK at the 2019 European Parliament elections |
| BERNIESANDERS | US politician who ran unsuccessfully for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president (6,7) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning novelist who wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| BUCK | Pearl ___, 1938 Nobel Prize-winning novelist who wrote about China (4) |
| SALMARUSHDIE | Booker Prize-winning novelist who wrote the 2024 memoir Knife: 2 wds. |
| NADIR | Ralph , US campaigner for consumer rights who stood for the presidency four times (5) |
| GLENN | John, astronaut who sought the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1984 (5) |
| TAMBO | Oliver ___, president of the African National Congress who stood down in favour of Nelson Mandela in 1991 (5) |
| COWIE | Identify this Kiwi, who stood as ICC Umpire in 22 Tests and 71 ODIS before retiring in 2005. He also worked for ICC as the manager for Umpires and Referees till 2008 (5) |
| DEFOE | Journalist, pamphleteer, spy and jack-of-all-trades who stood three days in the pillory for seditious libel, later turning his pen to fiction to write Robinson Crusoe aged 59 (5) |
| CLARK | ***** Wesley, US army officer who stood for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 (5) |
| TYLER | In 1841, John ____ became the first US vice president to succeed to the presidency without election |
| NAOMI | Estranged daughter of Emmerdale vicar Charles Anderson, who stood by as Nicola was attacked (5) |
| CHESTERALANARTHUR | Who took over the presidency of the US on the assassination of Garfield? (7,4,6) |
| EDSEL | Ford mocked by Nixon while in Peru in 1958 |
| RUING | Regretting being in Peru, in general |
| ADLAI | Mr. Stevenson, Democrat who stood twice against Eisenhower as presidential candidate (5) |
| DANNI | Olympic hockey champion who stood against John Coates as AOC President, ... Roche (5) |
