| FOLLOWER | One accepts the leadership of another (8) |
| ACOLYTE | Person who accepts the leadership of another (7) |
| TAKESIT | Assumes, when one accepts the article (5,2) |
| ASTERN | Behind leadership of another firm (6) |
| TAKESNOTE | Observes one accepts the money (5,4) |
| FAIRDEAL | The principles of the Democratic party under the leadership of US President Harry S. Truman (4,4) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
| PERESTROIKA | The policy of reconstructing the economy in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev (11) |
| CHIANG | In 1934 around 100,000 Chinese communists under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung retreated 10,000 km from the Nationalist Army of ... Kai-Shek in what was to become known as the Long March |
| NORTHKOREANS | Nationals of the country under the leadership of Kim Jong-un (5,7) |
| RAMILLIES | Battle in 1706 under the leadership of the Duke of Marlborough (9) |
| SOLIDARITY | Independent federation of Polish trade unions formed in 1980 under the leadership of Lech Walesa, outlawed from 1982 to 1989 (10) |
| CHRISLESLIE | Former Labour MP for Shipley and Nottingham East who left the party in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 |
| MANDATORY | Required the leadership of Maggie, together with a member of her party (9) |
| PRUSSIA | German state that unified the country into an Empire under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck in 1871 (7) |
| OWEN | --- Smith, former Labour MP who contested the leadership of the party in 2016 (4) |
| VISCOUNTS | Island matters under the leadership of five lords (9) |
| TASKS | Time to question the leadership of Steve Jobs? (5) |
| OPTICIAN | One accepts being confused by his small print |
| SEMINAR | University class where students participate in discussion under the leadership of a professor/lecturer (7) |
