| HAIG | Reagan secretary of state Alexander ___ |
| SHULTZ | Reagan Secretary of State |
| KORDA | Alexander ___, Hungarian-born producer of films including The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Third Man (1949), the former of which he also directed (5) |
| POPE | Alexander ___, author of The Rape of the Lock (4) |
| NEMEROV | Alexander ___ (president of Russia in "The Sum of All Fears") |
| MACKENZIE | Alexander _, Scottish explorer; the first European to achieve an east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico (1793) |
| SELKIRK | The experiences of which Scottish sailor (Alexander ___) formed the basis of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe ? (7) |
| DUBCEK | Alexander ___, statesman whose reforms as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party prompted the Russian occupation |
| FLEMING | Alexander ___, Scottish discoverer of penicillin (7) |
| SKARSGARD | The Legend of Tarzan and True Blood star, Alexander ___ (9) |
| ROSSI | Alexander ___ winner of 2016 Indianapolis 500 |
| ARMSTRONG | Alexander _, the host of BBC1's Pointless (9) |
| DECROO | Alexander __, prime minister of Belgium (2,4) |
| STUBB | Alexander ___, president of Finland (5) |
| MCGILLIVRAY | Alexander ___, 18th-century Creek leader who helped draft the Treaty of New York in 1790 (11) |
| KERENSKY | Alexander ___, minister-chairman of the Russian Provisional Government from July-November 1917 (8) |
| MUIR | Alexander ___ (b.1830 - d.1906): Composer of "The Maple Leaf Forever" |
| MCCALL | Alexander _ Smith, author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (6) |
| MILNE | Alan Alexander ___, British author of works including Mr. Pim Passes By (play, 1919) and When We Were Very Young (poetry, 1924) (5) |
| ORR | Alexander ___, pioneer and early head of New York's subway system |
