| OMEN | Sign about half the population wants leader ousted |
| CONSULTANT | Adviser continued to want leader of empire restricted (10) |
| UNPLEASANT | Nasty United Nations petitions want leader to be removed (10) |
| WOMEN | About half the population currently upset about the writer |
| MEN | About half the population |
| TOTHE | In 1979, the series final of which sitcom attracted about 24 million UK viewers - nearly half the population at the time? (2,3,5,4) |
| MANORBORN | In 1979, the series final of which sitcom attracted about 24 million UK viewers - nearly half the population at the time? (2,3,5,4) |
| PARLOUS | Dreadful knock-back when leftist leader ousted half of the members |
| ADAPTATION | Convert half the population in reconstruction (10) |
| ENVIRONMENT | Half the population taken in by mad inventor's surroundings (11) |
| MALES | Roughly half the population |
| FEMALES | Roughly half the population (7) |
| ARMENIA | Country song engages roughly half the population |
| HUK | Czech leader ousted in the Velvet Revolution, 1989 |
| MAYBE | Perhaps by getting in the paper, "leader ousted" written up (5) |
| TSAR | Leader ousted by the Bolsheviks |
| LONNOL | Cambodian leader ousted by the Khmer Rouge |
| INACTION | Little sign of movement in group after leader's ousted |
| ENGLISHWOMEN | It's spoken in these parts by half the population and females in Liverpool (12) |
| SNAP | What Thanos did to wipe out half the population in Avengers: Infinity War |
