| HONECKER | East German Communist leader, the successor of Walter Ulbricht (8) |
| ULBRICHT | German Communist leader Walter who was responsible for the building of the Berlin Wall |
| FOSTERED | Iron curtains East German Communist promoted (8) |
| POWDERED | Prisoner of war and German communist in ground (8) |
| GAMECUBE | Nintendo console which was the successor to the N64 (8) |
| CAROUSER | Party leader, the last type you'd expect to go on the tear (8) |
| HIAWATHA | Legendary Native American leader; the hero of an epic poem by Longfellow (8) |
| KARLMARX | German communist |
| YEOMANRY | Year in which eastern nation gets young leader, the nation's backbone (8) |
| BREZHNEV | 1970s leader the last character to be embraced by retiring Archdeacon Basil? (8) |
| CALIPH | The title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey |
| SUPERCUP | The successor to India's Federation Cup. (5,3) |
| AIRTIGHT | The successor was miserly, we hear, like a vacuum (3,5) |
| BRAGGART | Simpson about to tease gang leader, the bigmouth |
| PETRINE | ___ doctrine (belief that the pope has preeminent authority and is the successor of the saint associated with the pearly gates) |
| ELISHA | Hebrew prophet of the 9th century BC who was the successor of Elijah |
| PAPAL | Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Ap |
| SCHERZO | From the Italian for "jest, joke", a movement in orchestral music that is the successor of the minuet (7) |
| IPSUS | In 301 BC, which ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia, was the scene of a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great? (5) |
| EDEN | The successor of Churchill as prime minister in 1955 |
