| DEGAULLE | EU glad about the French politician who didn't want us |
| CLAMPDOWN | About the French politician getting depressed at restriction (9) |
| GOURMAND | Greedyguts extremely glad about the chap waiting on us? |
| GRISELDA | She's awfully glad about the increment (8) |
| WATT | Former Interior Secretary who didn't want the Beach Boys playing on the National Mall |
| REB | One who didn't want the Yanks to win |
| CINDERELLA | Disney character who didn't want the other shoe to drop? |
| COOLIO | Rapper who didn't want Weird Al Yankovic to parody Gangsta's Paradise as Amish Paradise (but the record company gave Yankovic permission) |
| RUMPELSTILTSKIN | Duff golfer lists family who didn't want to be named (15) |
| AURIOL | Vincent ___, French politician who served as the first president of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954 |
| LISA | __ Dingle, woman who didn't want to see daughter Belle in court in Emmerdale (4) |
| ANDERSON | Hollyoaks detective who didn't want to have Sam Chem-William's baby (3,8) |
| ZOE | Hollyoaks detective who didn't want to have Sam Chem-William's baby (3,8) |
| EMMANUEL | ____ Macron, French politician who became president in 2017 (8) |
| KOUCHNER | Bernard ******** , French politician who cofounded Medecins Sans Frontieres (8) |
| LEPEN | Marine, French politician who has run for her country's presidency three times (2,3) |
| BORNE | Elisabeth _. French politician who served as her country's prime minister between May 2022 and January 2024 (5) |
| NUTRITIONISTS | They want us to take things in properly (13) |
| NASUWT | Want us to reform teaching union (6) |
| LEAVETHEMALONE | What hermits want us to do (5,4,5) |
