| SPINDOCTOR | Political strategist in fix after revolution (4,6) |
| PETAIN | French general in fix after invasion by English army |
| GATECRASH | Leader of strategists in Carthage prepared to invade |
| FIANNAFAIL | In fix, getting nothing after foolishly trusting flipping politicians (6,4) |
| COMPLEMENT | Be a companion to old parliamentarian Liberal in fix? |
| REFINEMENT | Judge in fix, disregarding leader's subtle improvement |
| INFINITESIMALLY | Imperceptibly put feminist in a fix after the welcome by a single friend (15) |
| RESET | Fix after an outage, as a clock |
| RESEAL | Fix after steaming, perhaps |
| JUBILEECLIP | Adjustable ring to fix after anniversarv (7,4) |
| CROSBY | Lynton, Australian right-wing political strategist born in 1956 who has helped the Conservatives (6) |
| EDS | Political strategist Rollins and others |
| ROVE | Republican political strategist Karl |
| SPINNER | Top political strategist (7) |
| AXELROD | Political strategist David |
| TACTICIAN | Keen political strategist, say |
| ATWATER | Lee ___, Republican political strategist of the 1980s |
| BANNON | Steve, political strategist who once worked for Donald Trump (6) |
| ANA | Political strategist Navarro |
| MILLER | US political strategist, male, even more sick |
