| PRESENCE | Republican VP hedging about the end of his political influence (8) |
| STALLING | Hedging about why the car is stopping ? (8) |
| LOBBYIST | In lean times follows old boy, one seeking political influence (8) |
| OLIGARCH | Mega-rich Russian with political influence (8) |
| INTERNEE | He's denied freedom to express his political views (8) |
| OPIE | Painter in the chiaroscuro manner who was introduced to London as the "Cornish wonder" by John Wolcot and, at the end of his life, buried among the greats in St Paul's Cathedral (4) |
| ROAD | The ___, Orwell book recounting the development of his political consciousness (4,2,5,4) |
| OLDMASTER | Picture someone nearing the end of his days in the staff room? (3,6) |
| ISHMAEL | Narrator who gets saved by the Rachel at the end of his story |
| BOWING | What the violinist is practising - for the end of his recital? (6) |
| DEAF | Like Beethoven toward the end of his life |
| GOLDENHANDSHAKE | What King Midas may expect as thanks at the end of his career (6,9) |
| JURA | Hebridean island where George Orwell lived intermittently at the end of his life |
| BLIND | Like Milton, toward the end of his life |
| BROKEN | Brother Kenneth was at the end of his tether (6) |
| INEXILE | Like Napoleon at the end of his life |
| POWER | Drive a prisoner to the end of his tether |
| BRONCO | Peyton Manning, at the end of his athletic career |
| CULT | Corbyn's first (and last) description of his political movement? (4) |
| FWDEKLERK | His political career began as a member of the South African parliament in 1969; his role in the dismantling of apartheid was recognised in the Nobel peace prize he shared with Nelson Mandela (1,1,2,5) |
