| TRYGVELIE | Norwegian statesman; first secretary-general of the United Nations (1946-52) |
| LIE | Norwegian statesman |
| PLAATJE | Sol _ , the first secretary general of the ANC (5) |
| UNITEDNATIONS | Trygve Lie was the first Secretary- General of which organisation? (6,7) |
| CHARLESDEGAULLE | French general and statesman, first president of the Fifth Republic (7,2,6) |
| HANCOCK | John --, American statesman, first signatory of the Declaration of Independence (7) |
| ENLAI | Zhou ___, Chinese communist statesman; first premier of the People's Republic of China (1949-76) (2,3) |
| HARDIE | Keir ___, British statesman; first leader of the parliamentary Labour Party (1906-8) |
| AURIOL | Vincent, French statesman, first president of the Fourth Republic 1947-54 (6) |
| UTHANT | Serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, who was the first Asian in the role? (1,5) |
| PITT | Old British statesman first to take advice from the Right |
| AZIKIWE | Nnamdi ___, Nigerian statesman; first Governor General (1960-3) (7) |
| EBERT | Friedrich ___ (1871-1925), German Social Democratic statesman; first president of Germany (1919-25) (5) |
| GENERALHAIG | Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State or the commander of the British Expeditionary Force during much of the First World War |
| DAGHAMMARSKJOLD | 1953-61 Secretary-General of the United Nations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961 |
| ANNAN | Kofi ___, Ghanaian statesman; seventh secretary-general of the United Nations (5) |
| DAG | 1953-61 Secretary-General of the United Nations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961 |
| TRYGVE | Secretary-general of the United Nations from 1946 to 1952 (6) |
| GUTERRES | Portugal's Antonio ___ is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (8) |
| KURTWALDHEIM | Which Austrian was Secretary-General of the United Nations, then later president of Austria? (4,8) |
