| PRESIDENTS | Delving into newspapers, I study first of the leaders |
| FLEETSTREET | The quick way to get into newspapers (5,6) |
| REPRESSIVE | Minister seizing newspapers - i.e. becoming autocratic |
| MEDIA | TV, radio, newspapers (*I made) (5) |
| DUODENA | Parts of intestines a couple study first of all |
| READ | Study, first of all, in scarlet (4) |
| INSPECT | Study first of problem in cricket, say (7) |
| EARTHWORK | Delving into the foundations of banking technique (9) |
| HYPNOSIS | Method of delving into the subconscious (8) |
| OSVALDODORTICOS | Which president of Cuba, holding office from 1959 to 1976, was one of the leaders of the Castro revo |
| TYLER | Wat ---, one of the leaders of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England (5) |
| NIGEL | British politican Farage who was one of the leaders of the Brexit movement |
| BRUTUS | One of the leaders of the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar (6) |
| AKELA | From the name of the leader of the wolf pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the traditional n |
| CATESBY | Surname of the leader of the group of Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (7) |
| EXPERTISE | Delving into Exodus (second part of Pentateuch), high priest reveals knowledge (9) |
| FINGERBOWL | Being at first rather messy delving into chicken, need this? |
| RESEARCHER | One delving into the facts |
| THEOLOGY | Religious studies: love journal delving into the unknown |
| OMNIBUS | Collected works of writer delving into sumo wrestling (7) |
