| ANDROPOV | President of Soviet Union from 1983 to 1984 (8) |
| YURIANDROPOV | President of the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1984 (4,8) |
| GORBACHEV | President of Soviet Union 1988-91 (9) |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| LENINITE | Supporter of first premier of Soviet Union (8) |
| BOBHAWKE | Prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991 (3,5) |
| MALENKOV | Georgy -, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1953-55 (8) |
| SULTRIER | Leaders of Soviet Union left Marx's birthplace with even more passion (8) |
| SUSTAINS | Props up Marx reportedly propping up leaders of Soviet Union (8) |
| BETJEMAN | Sir John --, poet laureate from 1972 to 1984 (8) |
| LOCKHEED | Makers of the 1968 to 1984 TriStar airliner (8) |
| RANDPAUL | U.S. senator who attended Baylor University from 1981 to 1984; he later became an ophthalmologist |
| JOHN | ___ Sculley former president of PepsiCo who was the CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993 |
| BENZVG | Chaim ___ (1918-97), president of Israel from 1983 to 1993 (6) |
| BOGGS | Winner of five of six A.L. batting titles from 1983 to 1988 |
| ADAMS | Gerry , president of the Sinn Fein political party from 1983 to 2018 (5) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| NEIL | First name of the leader of the British Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. (4) |
| MCCABE | John ___, British composer and pianist who was director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990 |
| THEREBY | Word that follows First to give the title of an ITV documentary strand which ran from 1983 to 1993 (7) |
