| DUBCEK | Alexander, secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party 1968-69 (6) |
| STALIN | Joseph ---, nom de guerre of the dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6) |
| ELFORD | Vic ......, 1968-69 and 1971 F1 driver; fourth in the 1968 French GP (6) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| RECKON | Consider note with extremes of Czechoslovak opinion |
| CASTRO | Fidel ___, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965-2011 (6) |
| MCLAIN | 1968-69 A.L. Cy Young Award winner |
| OGRADY | The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (7,6) |
| BARBER | Brendon ___ (b 1951), the general secretary of the TUC (2003-12) |
| WILLIS | Norman -, General Secretary of the TUC from 1984- 1993 (6) |
| YELLEN | Janet ___, the first female Secretary of the Treasury |
| CRANES | They give a lift to the Secretary of the Navy |
| PRAGUESPRING | Period of political liberalisation and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968 |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| JOSEPHSTALIN | Dictator who was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (6,6) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin ___, Soviet statesman; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 1984-5 (9) |
| LEONIDBREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 |
| BASIL | England batsman rejected by South Africa for the 1968-69 tour, ... D'Oliveira (5) |
| RAULCASTRO | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 2011 to 2021 (4,6) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Nikita ---, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-64 (10) |
