Answer: mao

AnswerCrossword Clue
MAO

"Little Red Book" writer

MAO

Chairman ..

MAO

Late Chinese leader

MAO
Late Red head
MAO
Long March leader
MAORed book man
MAO.. Zedong
MAO.. jacket (Chinese attire)
MAOFormer premier, familiarly
MAOKind of jacket
MAOMan with a red book?
MAORed head, once?
MAO"Nixon in China" character
MAOChina's Zedong
MAOFormer chairman
MAOChairman you shouldn't carry pictures of if you want to make it with anyone, per Lennon
MAO"Little Red Book" author
MAORed Army's leader
MAOFormer Chinese leader
MAOLeader of the Long March
MAO1960s jacket eponym
MAORed giant
MAOBig Red of China
MAO.. inhibitor
MAOLeader with an eponymous jacket
MAORed head of yore
MAORed Chairman
MAOBig Red name
MAOOft-quoted leader
MAOChinese chairman
MAOChina's Chairman
MAOChinese Chairman
MAO"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" speaker
MAORed head of yore?
MAOAndy Warhol portrait subject
MAO"... II" (Don DeLillo novel)
MAOGreat Leap Forward pioneer
MAOThe Great Leap Forward initiator
MAOLittle Red Book writer
MAONixon met with him in 1972