| IANBLAIR | Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005-08 (3,5) |
| EASTSIDE | Ideas set out in part of the metropolis (4,4) |
| BULGARIA | The KGB and the secret police of this Soviet-bloc nation were suspects in the death of Georgi Markov |
| VERACITY | Girl stands before the metropolis and that's the truth! (8) |
| LOISLANE | Reporter for the Metropolis newspaper and girlfriend of Superman (4,4) |
| CALAMITY | Disaster hearing a sheep in the metropolis (8) |
| FELICITY | She has an active life at the metropolis (8) |
| VIVACITY | Long live the metropolis in animation (8) |
| LAINHUME | 2003-16 Canada, 2000-05 Tranmere and 2005-08 Leicester striker (4) |
| STALTERI | Paul, 1997-2010 Canada and 2005-08 Tottenham Hotspur defender/midfielder (8) |
| DENSITY | The compactness of the metropolis of squats, reportedly (7) |
| HOWELLS | Kim ?, Labour MP for Pontypridd from 1989-2010; Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2005-08 (7) |
| OGPU | The secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934 (4) |
| CHEKA | First secret police of the Soviet Union, set up by the Bolshevik government in 1917 and reorganised as the GPU in 1922 (5) |
| CITYCENTRE | Heart of the metropolis, is it? (4,6) |
| NYGAARD | Marc ....... , Denmark striker at QPR from 2005-08 (7) |
| HLEB | Alexander former Belarus midfielder with Arsenal from 2005-08 (4) |
| ALEXANDER | ......... Hleb, former Belarus winger with Arsenal from 2005-08 (9) |
| STASI | Secret police of the former German Democratic Republic (5) |
| KGB | State security police of the former Soviet Union (3) |
