| PRAVDA | Russian broadsheet, once the voice of the Communist Party (6) |
| STALIN | Joseph ---, nom de guerre of the dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| CASTRO | Fidel ___, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965-2011 (6) |
| DUBCEK | Alexander --, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (6) |
| ACTIVE | The voice of the doer (6) |
| VOXPOP | Abbreviation of a Latin phrase meaning the voice of the people (3,3) |
| BACKUS | Jim, American actor who was the voice of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo (6) |
| ODETTA | Singer called "the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| ANGELA | US author, academic and activist and former vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party (6,5) |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| JOSEPHSTALIN | Dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6,6) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin ___, Soviet statesman; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 1984-5 (9) |
| LEONIDBREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 |
| KIROV | Sergei ___, Soviet politician whose 1934 assassination was the start of the purge of the Communist Party by Stalin (5) |
| PHILIPPS | Wogan ___, the only member of the Communist Party to have sat in the House of Lords (8) |
| MAOZEDONG | Chairman of the Communist Party of China who died in 1976 (3,6) |
| RAULCASTRO | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 2011 to 2021 (4,6) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Nikita ---, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-64 (10) |
| MIGUEL | And 12 Across First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba who succeeded Raul Castro on 19 April 2021 (6,4-5) |
