| PERON | President who took office in 1946 |
| TRUDEAU | P.M. who took office in 2015 |
| ANTHONY | ___ Albanese, Australian prime minister who took office in 2022 (7) |
| RAMAPHOSA | Cyril ---, politician who took office as the President of South Africa in February this year (9) |
| RAJIV | Son of Indira Gandhi who took office after her assassination in 1984 (5) |
| DDE | He took office in '53 |
| PRIORTO | Before order member first took office, in the west |
| RAJIVGANDHI | Prime minister of India 1984-89, who took office after the assassination of his mother (5,6) |
| MMI | Year Bush Jr. took office |
| MCMI | Year Theodore Roosevelt took office |
| ACCEDED | Took office |
| RICHARDNIXON | 37th U.S. president who was the first to visit mainland China while in office in 1972 (7,5) |
| TAFT | President who left office in 1913 |
| OZAL | Turkish president who died in office in 1993 |
| RESIDENT | Currently in office, office in further test (8) |
| MACRON | Emmanuel - - -, President of France who assumed office in 2017 (6) |
| JOE | Vice president of the United States who assumed office in 2009 (3,5) |
| JAMESGARFIELD | 20th president of the United States, assassinated in office in 1881 (5,8) |
| QUICKTEMPERED | Swift, occasionally works in office, in hospital and in the press, like a bear with a sore head (5-8) |
| CANNING | George _, British prime minister who died in office in 1827 (7) |
