| MEIR | World leader called a "grey-bunned grandmother" |
| REDHEAD | Revolutionary leader called Ginger (7) |
| BISMARCK | German leader called the "Iron Chancellor" (8) |
| PRANG | Pact leader called an accident (5) |
| PETERI | Leader called "the Great" |
| KREMLINOLOGIST | Nasty strike looming? Labour leader called in foreign policy specialist |
| GANDHI | Leader called Mahatma |
| TSARALEXANDERII | Assassinated leader called "the Liberator" |
| FRANGIPANI | French leader called, almost in panic, to get flowers (10) |
| ORANGUTAN | Opposition leader called you brown ape! (9) |
| MUHAMMAD | Religious leader called the Seal of the Prophets |
| RANGY | Lanky youth leader called first (5) |
| WGA | Org. that went on strike over what its leaders called "existential issues," including residuals and the use of generative A.I. (May-September, 2023) |
| FORESTER | An arboriculturist; a woodlander; a grey kangaroo; or, a metallic-green-winged moth with a bronze body (8) |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| DARKHORSE | But a grey also may be so unfancied a runner |
| ASHEN | Just as a chicken has a grey look (5) |
| PHALAROPE | Red-necked -; with a grey relative, a wading bird related to sandpipers and snipes, of which the female is notably more colourful than the male (9) |
| GALAH | Small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and wings and a pink body; Kakatoe or Eolophus roseicapilla (5) |
| HERON | Wading bird with a long neck, slim body and a grey or white plumage (5) |
