| CAROUSER | Party leader, the last type you'd expect to go on the tear (8) |
| BREZHNEV | 1970s leader the last character to be embraced by retiring Archdeacon Basil? (8) |
| CASTASPELL | Players for a time expect to go on a charm offensive perhaps (4,1,5) |
| AIRTERMINAL | The last place one would expect to go at the end of a flight? (3,8) |
| SPEECH | Going on the tear without leader of Reformist Church producing a sermon (6) |
| ANAGRAM | 'Asian leader the last King in Old Vietnam?' It's an indication of sorts (7) |
| SKYE | Dome of space over the last type of terrier |
| ESKIMOS | The last type of milk huge for Arctic dwellers (7) |
| TIEDONEON | Went on the tear (4,3,2) |
| PMS | Brit. leaders, the last four of whom begin the answers to starred clues |
| MRMONDAY | Folky hit for Canadian band The Original Caste that goes "Me oh my / You collect on the tears we cry.": 2 wds. |
| ENTREATS | Begs one to mend the tear in the nets, anyway (8) |
| TREASURE | The tear shed, doubtless, is from love (8) |
| YEOMANRY | Year in which eastern nation gets young leader, the nation's backbone (8) |
| HONECKER | East German Communist leader, the successor of Walter Ulbricht (8) |
| HIAWATHA | Legendary Native American leader; the hero of an epic poem by Longfellow (8) |
| ANEMONES | According to Greek mythology, flowers that sprang from the tears of Aphrodite as she mourned Adonis (8) |
| BRAGGART | Simpson about to tease gang leader, the bigmouth |
| HERCULES | The Tears Of _, 32nd studio album from Rod Stewart (8) |
| VIADUCTS | How the tears flow when we read 'Features of NZ Railways' (8) |
