| ANDROPOV | Yuri -, Soviet president nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty four |
| REAGAN | US president nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty nine |
| EISENHOWER | US president nineteen fifty three to nineteen sixty one |
| HITLER | German Chancellor and Fuhrer, nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty five |
| OGPU | Russian secret police nineteen twenty two to nineteen thirty four; go up (anag.) |
| ADENAUER | Konrad -, W. German chancellor nineteen forty nine to nineteen sixty three |
| PERRY | Fred -, British Wimbledon winner nineteen thirty four to nineteen thirty six |
| BORIS | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| YELTSIN | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| RAGEQUIT | Due to frustration, abandon sleazy newspaper with roughly eighty-three-per-cent equity (4-4) |
| PRIMENUMBER | Chief less sensitive when eighty-three, say (5,6) |
| RECORD | Eighty-three hot dogs in ten minutes, e.g. |
| GAGARIN | Yuri - - -, Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 (7) |
| BRANDT | Willy -, W. German chancellor nineteen sixty nie to nineteen seventy four and Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| COSMO | - Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury nineteen twenty eight to nineteen forty two |
| LLOYD | David - George, British PM nineteen sixteen to nineteen twenty two |
| WARTIME | Eg, nineteen thirty nine to nineteen fourty five |
| THIRTIES | Nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty nine |
| CLASSICCAR | Motor dating from nineteen twenty five to nineteen forty two |
| BALFOUR | Prime minister nineteen hundred and two to nineteen hundred and five |
