| ANDROPOV | Yuri ___, leader of the Soviet Union (as General Secretary of its Communist Party) who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 (8) |
| SAMUEL | Herbert ****** , leader of the British Liberal Party who succeeded David Lloyd George (6) |
| KING | Patricia ___ succeeded David Begg as general secretary of the ICTU earlier this year. (4) |
| ICTU | Patricia King replaced David Begg as general secretary of which body last year?. (1,1,1,1) |
| WESTEDMONTONMAO | Alberta attraction due to its communist ways? |
| LAOS | It's communist |
| PATTEN | Chris _, former Chairman of the Conservative Party who served as the last Governor of Hong Kong (1992-97) |
| CHRISPATTEN | Former Chairman of the Conservative Party who served as the last Governor of Hong Kong (1992-97) |
| EDDIE | Comedian Izzard who once described the European Union as "the cutting edge of politics, in a very extraordinarily boring way" |
| STATAL | Pertaining to a part of the American Union, as opposed to the general government. |
| EDMILIBAND | Former Leader of the Labour Party who has been Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July last year (28) |
| MAJOR | Leader of the Conservative Party who was succeeded by William Hague in 1997 (5) |
| WHIP | Member of a political party who opposed the Tories between the 1680s and the 1850s (4) |
| HAROLDPINTER | British author of "The Birthday Party" who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature: 2 wds. |
| GRANTSHAPPS | Former Chairman of the Conservative Party who has used the pseudonym Michael Green (5,6) |
| DRAMAQUEEN | Drop of the hard stuff given to one member of groom's party who's acting up? (5,5) |
| BREZHNEV | He succeeded Kruschev as leader of the Soviet Union (8) |
| GORBACHEV | Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union? (9) |
| LENIN | Revolutionary who was the first leader of the Soviet Union (5) |
| STALIN | Assumed name of the leader of the Soviet Union (1924 - 1953) (6) |
