| SCHUMAN | Robert ---, Luxembourg-born statesman who was twice Prime Minister of France; one of the founders of the EU (7) |
| RUGBY | Contested at the Six Nations Championship between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, one of the sports or games that originated in the UK (5) |
| PALMERSTON | Statesman who was twice Prime Minister in the mid-19th century (10) |
| PITT | 18th-century English statesman who was twice prime minister (4) |
| RUDD | Kevin _, politician who was twice Prime Minister of Australia (2007-10; 2013) (4) |
| ROBERTPEEL | Statesman who was twice Britain's Prime Minister and helped create the modern police force (6,4) |
| ALSACELORRAINE | Area of France, one toured by gang leader's girl |
| MIDI | Area of France, one fading after rise |
| PEEL | Robert - twice Prime Minister who founded the Metropolitan Police Service |
| BURKE | Edmund ___, 18th-century Dublin-born statesman who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (5) |
| EDMUND | 18th-century Dublin-born statesman who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (6,5) |
| NAGY | Imre -; twice prime minister of Hungary (1953-55 and 1956) (4) |
| WILLIAMPITT | The 1st Earl of Chatham, a British Whig statesman who was Prime Minister in the 18th century (7,4) |
| BENJAMIN | _ Disraeli, British statesman who was prime minister of the UK twice (8) |
| KEEGAN | Kevin -, English footballer who was twice voted European Footballer of the Year (6) |
| PETERSON | Ronnie, Swedish Formula One driver who was twice runner-up in the World Drivers' Championship (8) |
| TINA | Turner who was twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
| DISRAELI | Novelist and twice prime minister who resided at Hughenden with his wife Mary Anne; a favourite of Queen Victoria, he is remembered on Primrose Day (8) |
| SINGH | Dr. Manmohan ____. Indian economist and statesman who was the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014 |
| GLADSTONE | 19th-century statesman who was four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, William Ewart _ (9) |