| FAIRDEAL | The principles of the Democratic party under the leadership of US President Harry S. Truman (4,4) |
| PEDESTRIAN | Uninspiring President sadly adopting leadership of America (10) |
| BUCK | The _ stops here; a phrase US president Harry S Truman loved (4) |
| LANCET | Permit to keep Mandela's party under the knife (6) |
| TRUMAN | US president Harry S ... said, "A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years" |
| BLUE | Representative colour of the Democratic Party in the U.S. (4) |
| TAMMANY | -- Hall is the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York County (7) |
| CRESCENDO | Party under the moon (not a full one) gradually getting louder (9) |
| MISSOURI | U.S. president Harry S Truman's home state (8) |
| SKILLFUL | "Progress occurs when courageous, ___ leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better": Harry S Truman (8) |
| CHARTISM | The principles of the political reform movement in England from 1838 to 1848 (8) |
| DEANACHESON | US Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S Truman from 1949 to 1953 |
| TANTRUMS | Harry S Truman securing time for pets (8) |
| ACHESON | Dean --, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman (7) |
| GARYOLDMAN | Actor who played President Harry S. Truman in the 2023 film Oppenheimer (4,6) |
| LYING | Harry S Truman described Richard Nixon as, 'One of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and ... out of both side' |
| PERESTROIKA | The policy of reconstructing the economy in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev (11) |
| ELEMENTS | Fundamental principles of the weather (8) |
| FOLLOWER | One accepts the leadership of another (8) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
