| MAO | Chinese chairman of yore |
| MAOIST | Follower of a Chinese "Chairman" |
| MAGNETO | Chinese chairman gets hold of head gasket to bring home for small electric generator (7) |
| SKID | Chinese Chairman |
| MICROCOSM | Crocodile caught by Chinese chairman: small world (9) |
| MAKO | Chinese chairman consumed king-fish (4) |
| MAMBO | Chinese chairman brings doctor in for dance (5) |
| KOSYGIN | Alexei ___, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1964-80 (7) |
| MAOTSETUNG | Ex-chairman of China and father of Chinese Revolution? (3,3,4) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin ___, Soviet statesman; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 1984-5 (9) |
| MALENKOV | Georgy ?, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1953-55 |
| LIPENG | Chinese Communist politician; prime minister from 1988 to 1998 and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003 (2,4) |
| OMAR | First name of the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| POWELL | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Desert Storm |
| COLIN | Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| ARTHUR | ___ Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The Times |
| BLUM | Leon, Chairman of the Provisional Government of France 1946-47 (4) |
| BRADLEY | Omar ___, US Army general; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1949-53 (7) |
| ERO | "So take your proper share, man, of Dope and drink: Aren't you the Chairman of ..., Inc?" W.H. Auden |
| LEONBLUM | Chairman of the Provisional Government of France from 1946-47 (4,4) |
