| 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) |
| 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) |
| NAOMI | Estranged daughter of Emmerdale vicar Charles Anderson, who stood by as Nicola was attacked (5) |
| TYLER | In 1841, John ____ became the first US vice president to succeed to the presidency without election |
| EDSEL | Ford mocked by Nixon while in Peru in 1958 |
| CHESTERALANARTHUR | Who took over the presidency of the US on the assassination of Garfield? (7,4,6) |
| 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) |
| CERRODEPASCO | A city in central Peru, in the Andes; one of the highest cities in the world (5,2,5) |
| ALOOF | Apart from a twit who stood up (5) |
