| MOWLAM | Mo, Northern Ireland Secretary who helped to broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (6) |
| BERTIE | _ _ _ _ _ _ Ahern, Irish Taoiseach at the time of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (6) |
| AHERN | Bertie ---, taoiseach who signed the Good Friday agreement in 1998 |
| INLA | Republican paramilitary group responsible for the car bomb that killed the shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Airey Neave, in 1979 (4) |
| THERESA | ____ Villiers, Conservative politician who served as Northern Ireland Secretary from 2012 to 2016 (7) |
| RUDOLF | Which Nazi official flew a solo mission to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to broker peace with the UK? (6,4) |
| PEELER | Old nickname for a policeman (taken from the Home Secretary who set up the Metropolitan Police in 1829) (6) |
| CASTLE | Barbara, British Transport Secretary who introduced the breathalyser in 1967 (6) |
| DOMINO | Fats, byname of U.S. singer and pianist born in 1928 who helped to define the New Orleans R&B sound (6) |
| CICELY | ___ Saunders, social worker who helped to found the hospice movement (6) |
| MOMOWLAM | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who presided over the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (2,6) |
| MITCHELL | Which US senator played a leading role in the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement? (8) |
| DOWDEN | Oliver ___, MP and former culture secretary who was deputy PM from 2023 to 2024 (6) |
| PALACE | It houses royal secretary who's paid to assist doctor ... (6) |
| DUNCAN | Isadora ___, an early 20th century American dancer who helped to free ballet from its rigid conventions (6) |
| LAMARR | Hedy, Austrian-born film star who helped to invent a radio communications device (6) |
| ESTHER | ____ Rantzen, TV presenter who helped to set up charity Childline (6) |
| STEIFF | Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bear |
| HORGAN | Sharon, who helped to devise Motherland (6) |
| AGENTS | A thousand sent off to brokers (6) |
