| NARENDRAMODI | Politician appointed prime minister of India in 2014 (8,4) |
| ALEC | Last member of the UK's House of Lords to be appointed prime minister, Sir ... Douglas-Home |
| AHMED | Bangladesh bowler who took 5-28 in the 2nd ODI against India in 2014 (5) |
| TASKIN | Bangladesh bowler who took 5-28 in the 2nd ODI against India in 2014 (6) |
| SPEIGHT | Self-appointed PM announced surplus (7) |
| NEHRU | Jawaharlal ---, the first Prime Minister of India, in office 1947-64 (5) |
| RAJIV | Gandhi who was Prime Minister of India in the nineteen-eighties |
| INDIRAGANDHI | Two-time prime minister of India assassinated in office in 1984 (6,6) |
| MORARJIDESAI | Politician who was prime minister of India from 1977 to 1979 (7,5) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the author of The Last Days of Pompeii whose son was appointed Viceroy of India in 1875 by friend Benjamin Disraeli (6) |
| MADURO | Nicolas - - -, Venezuelan politician appointed president of that country in 2013 (6) |
| ADOLF | First name of the politician appointed German chancellor in January 1933 (5) |
| PHILLIPS | Jess, Labour politician appointed Safeguarding Minister in 2024 (8) |
| KINNOCK | Stephen ___, Labour politician appointed as care minister in 2024 (7) |
| PARTITION | One of the most famous examples of such political division is that of India in 1947 (9) |
| PADMASHRI | Civilian award conferred on Bond by the Government of India in 1999; he also won the Padma Bhushan in 2014 |
| LINDSEYGRAHAM | US Republican politician appointed Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 2019 (7,6) |
| NADINE | ____ Dorries, Conservative politician appointed Culture Secretary in 2021 (6) |
| KEEGAN | Gillian, Conservative politician appointed Education Secretary in 2022 (6) |
| YVETTE | ____ Cooper, Labour politician appointed Shadow Home Secretary in 2021 (6) |
