| MUGWUMP | Name for a Republican political activist who switched to supporting Democratic candidate Grover Clev |
| NEOCON | Informal American name for one supporting democratic capitalism |
| CAVS | Clev. players |
| EASTON | ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S MICHAEL WHO SWITCHED TO GH IN 2012 |
| DUFFIE | Auckland-born Storm winger who switched to rugby in 2016, Matt ... (6) |
| SEMIRADRADRA | Suva-born Eels winger who switched to French rugby in 2017 (4,8) |
| MEKA | Labour MP who switched to Te Pati Maori in 2023 (4,8) |
| WHAITIRI | Labour MP who switched to Te Pati Maori in 2023 (4,8) |
| KOROIBETE | Storm winger who switched to the Melbourne Rebels in 2017, Marika ... (9) |
| JARROD | Bulldogs centre who switched to the Eels in 1996, ... McCracken (6) |
| JOHNMCCAIN | Republican senator touted as a Democratic candidate for president in '04 |
| SUSANSONTAG | Benjamin Moser won a Pulitzer for his biography of this political activist, who died in 2018 |
| STEVENSON | Adlai ___ (1900 - 65) US lawyer who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956 (9) |
| OBAMACON | Portmanteau for a Republican who voted Democrat in 2008 |
| ARNOLD | Benedict ___, an American commander in the War of Independence who switched allegiance to the British side (6) |
| TIES | Devices for attaching trunks of young trees to supporting stakes (4) |
| CLINTON | US politician, Democratic candidate for president in 2016 (7,7) |
| HILLARY | US politician, Democratic candidate for president in 2016 (7,7) |
| WEATHERFRONT | Guardian articles on Republican political group that heralds a storm? (7,5) |
| ROBESON | Paul ___, 1898-1976, bass- baritone, actor, NFL footballer and political activist who was the only African-American student when he went to Rutgers College in 1915 (7) |
