| SUMP | Retiring American politician in the car |
| ASSURED | Confident, like retiring American left-winger (7) |
| ASHY | Before retiring, American is looking grey (4) |
| CRASSUS | Coarse American politician in Rome |
| SEN | American politician in short ready for Japan |
| CONDEMN | Criticize American politician in Eastern state |
| LACONIC | Short liberal American politician in charge (7) |
| DEMOCRATIC | Egalitarian American politician in charge (10) |
| HUMPBACK | House Un-American politician in favour of beastly type having a whale of a time (8) |
| TAPIOCA | Leaders of trendy American politicians, in old collars, apply starch (7) |
| EMPLOY | Sign up politician in the foreign sport centre at the back of the gantry (6) |
| LAMEDUCK | A politician in the U.S. in a final period of office after the election of a successor (4,4) |
| EMPIRE | The domain of a politician in the Republic of Ireland |
| POMPOUS | Politician in the poo, American and grandiloquent! (7) |
| MARAT | Jean-Paul ---, Swiss-born radical journalist and politician in the French Revolution, killed in his bath tub (5) |
| SPYSTORY | Pick out point by British politician in The Riddle of the Sands, for instance (3,5) |
| NASTASE | Romanian politician in the Tennis Hall of Fame |
| SENATOR | Wandering one-star politician in the US (7) |
| BACKSTORY | Supports British politician in the plot before now (9) |
| NYE | Name of old politician in the neighbourhood being heard |
