| CLOONEY | Barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| AMAL | And 15 Across Barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| ROBINCOOK | Britain's foreign secretary since 1997 |
| MITCHELL | George ******** , US senator appointed Special Envoy for Middle East Peace by Barack Obama in 2009 (8) |
| PRESS | Hand-out on media freedom? (5,7) |
| RELEASE | Hand-out on media freedom? (5,7) |
| ASCOT | Commonwealth Office in a street somewhere in Berkshire (5) |
| EYED | Observed envoy on vacation with newsman |
| LORDCHALFONT | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, 100, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister at the time of the Falklands War (4,8) |
| HOWELLS | Kim ?, Labour MP for Pontypridd from 1989-2010; Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2005-08 (7) |
| OFFICERS | Foreign and Commonwealth Office fires senior staff (8) |
| HERMER | Richard ___, barrister appointed attorney general for England and Wales in 2024 (6) |
| OWEN | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| DAVID | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| RINGL | Which former Ireland rugby international was recently appointed as a special envoy to the US for Northern Ireland by the British government? (8) |
| RIFTVALLEY | Geographical feature demonstrated by tree-climbing on media channel (4,6) |
| RECORDER | A barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge (8) |
| JIMTHORPE | Native American Olympic gold medalist and NFL All-Pro posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden: 2 wds. |
| ROYWILKINS | American civil rights activist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B Johnson in 1967 |
| RUSHLIMBAUGH | American radio personality awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2020 |
