| NEHRU | The first Prime Minister of 5 down (surname) (5) |
| GANDHI | Indira ___: Former prime minister of 5 ACROSS (6) |
| PATRICELUMUMBA | Pan-Africanist who served as the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| MACDONALD | Surname of the first prime minister of Canada, originally from Scotland (9) |
| BOTHA | Louis ___, first prime minister of the Union of South Africa (5) |
| DAVIDBENGURION | The first Prime Minister of Israel, born in Poland (5,3-6) |
| ENLAI | Zhou ___, first prime minister of the People's Republic of China, in office from 1949 to 1976 (5) |
| WALPOLE | Whig statesman regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain (7) |
| PANDIT | Name given to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India |
| BARTON | Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Edmund ... (6) |
| UNU | The first Prime Minister of Burma |
| BEN | David _-_, the first prime minister of Israel, born in Poland (3-6) |
| GURION | David _-_, the first prime minister of Israel, born in Poland (3-6) |
| BANDA | Hastings, first prime minister of Nyasaland (5) |
| NETANYAHU | He was the first prime minister of Israel to have been born there, after its creation as a state (9) |
| LUMUMBA | Who was the first prime minister of independent Congo, ousted and assassinated in 1961? (7) |
| KENYATTA | Jomo, the first prime minister and president of independent Kenya (8) |
| ISRAEL | Country founded in 1948 of which David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister (6) |
| PREMIER | The first prime minister (7) |
| ALI | Liaquat - - became the first PM of Pakistan in 1947 (3,4) |
