| LUMUMBA | Who was the first prime minister of independent Congo, ousted and assassinated in 1961? (7) |
| RODNEY | Wary, redolent, yet disrupted and assassinated (12) |
| WALTER | Wary, redolent, yet disrupted and assassinated (12) |
| MITCHEL | Who read the first ever televised news bulletin on RTE in 1961? (7) |
| WALPOLE | Whig statesman regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain (7) |
| NEHRU | Who was the first prime minister of independent India? (5) |
| PREMIER | The first prime minister (7) |
| DROPPED | Democrat supported leader being ousted and ditched (7) |
| ISRAEL | Country founded in 1948 of which David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister (6) |
| PATRICELUMUMBA | Pan-Africanist who served as the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| JAWAHARLAL | First Prime Minister of independent India ( 1947- 64) and father of future Prime Minister ( 1966- 77; 1980-84) Indira Gandhi ( 10,5) |
| BARTON | Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Edmund ... (6) |
| NETANYAHU | He was the first prime minister of Israel to have been born there, after its creation as a state (9) |
| PINOCHET | Chilean dictator who led the coup that ousted and resulted in the death of president Salvador Allend |
| KENYATTA | Jomo, the first prime minister and president of independent Kenya (8) |
| MACDONALD | Surname of the first prime minister of Canada, originally from Scotland (9) |
| 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) |
| DAVIDBENGURION | The first Prime Minister of Israel, born in Poland (5,3-6) |
| MUGABE | Robert, first Prime Minister of independent Zimbabwe (6) |
