| BELLAABZUG | Politician who had a |
| KIROV | Soviet politician who had his own ballet company? |
| PROFUMO | Politician who had an affair with Christine Keeler (7) |
| THEGODWIFE | Legal drama about the spouse of a disgraced politician ... who happens to be a deity? |
| SARAHPALIN | American politician who once described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull as "lipstick" |
| ALGORE | Politician who declared, "The planet has a fever" |
| ASTOR | Pioneering politician who was like a rock (5) |
| NIXON | Politician who said "Reagan, on a personal basis, is terrible" |
| TAMBO | Oliver, South African politician who became acting president of A.N.C. in 1967 (5) |
| REP | Capitol Hill politician who isn't a senator: Abbr. |
| VAMPED | Dave somehow included a politician who bodged the job |
| ATTLEE | Clement ___, politician who led the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 |
| MICHAELHOWARD | Which politician, who went on to become leader of the Conservatives, was famously asked the same question 12 times in a row by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight? (7,6) |
| BRUNDTLAND | Known as "mother of the nation", a Labour politician who served as Norway's first woman prime minister (10) |
| BRIGHT | John ___, British Quaker and politician who was a co-founder of the Anti- Corn Law League in the late 1830s (6) |
| PERICLES | Fifth-century BC politician who played a major role in the development of the Athenian empire (8) |
| SENATOR | He's a politician who demands no rates (7) |
| EDMUNDBURKE | Dublin-born philosopher and politician who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry (6,5) |
| SHIRLEY | _ Williams, politician who was one of the Gang of Four rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (7) |
| VLADIMIRPUTIN | Politician who won a fourth term as President of Russia in 2018 (8,5) |
