| CLINTON | Hillary, U.S. politician who lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election (7) |
| RUBIO | Marco ---, US senator who was an opponent of Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries (5) |
| HRC | Monogram in the 2016 presidential election |
| PERSONOFTHEYEAR | Annual Time magazine cover given to Donald Trump in 2024 |
| MCCAIN | John - - -, politician who lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election |
| JOHNMCCAIN | Republican politician who lost to Barack Obama in 2008 |
| ANA | Ms. navarro, 2016 Presidential election commentator on Cnn |
| DUKAKIS | Michael, U.S. politician who in 1988 was Democratic nominee for the presidency (7) |
| SENATOR | U.S. politician who could resort to treason (7) |
| NOTRUMP | What Jeb Bush would have liked in the 2016 presidential race? |
| IMPEACH | Setter's fruit something to do with Trump in the past? (7) |
| BRENDAN | Gleeson who plays President Trump in the forthcoming Showtime series "The Comey Rule" |
| KENNEDY | Robert, U.S. politician assassinated in 1968 (7) |
| TRUMPET | Something that's blown U.S. politician on film (7) |
| WHEELER | William, U.S. politician elected vice-president under Rutherford B. Hayes (7) |
| BERNIE | ____ Sanders, U.S. politician who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020 (6) |
| MIKEPOMPEO | U.S. politician who served as Donald Trump's Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021 (4,6) |
| HART | Gary, U.S. politician who contested the Democrats' presidential nomination in 1980 (4) |
| HALEY | Nikki, U.S. politician who served as Donald Trump's UN Ambassador (5) |
| GORE | Al, U.S. politician who served as Bill Clinton's vice president from 1993 to 2001 (4) |