| DESISTED | Resisted a change of leader and then left off (8) |
| EXPATRIATE | A cross monarch develops appetite to expel party leader and so he goes to live elsewhere |
| INDECORUM | Bad taste of lemon curd pie I began - then left off |
| LAICAL | Hostile revolutionary, dismissive of leader and of non-professionals (6) |
| KING | Type of leader, and a word that could precede the last word in each starred answer |
| STRUCKABLOW | Resisted a bit of stirring at work clubs (6,1,4) |
| BUSTLED | Coach, over time, took on the role of leader and was energetic (7) |
| EASTSIDER | Resisted a plan for New Yorker (4-5) |
| STAYED | Resisted a job offer, say |
| ACCIDENT | Mishap when the west has a change of leader (8) |
| COWARDLY | Chicken combined operations on way to cross road and then left (8) |
| SLEEPERS | Spies who are put in place in a foreign country and then left unactivated for years by which time th |
| SHORTLEG | Cricketer's attempt to keep right and then left, say (5,3) |
| MAESTOSO | Set out to interrupt Chinese leader, so performed impressively |
| HUMOURED | Said to be gratified here by change of leader |
| MUCKRAKE | After change of leaders plebs prepare to root out scandal (8) |
| RESPITE | Break nevertheless for a change of leader |
| RELIEVE | Believe a change of leader will ease burden (7) |
| BASTE | Beat discrimination with a change of leader |
| IDLE | Existing in a situation without purpose, as a motor does when it is switched on and then left alone (4) |
