| INGHAM | Bernard ---, Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary while she was UK prime minister (6) |
| THERESA | --- May, Conservative MP who was UK prime minister from 2016-19 (7) |
| DISRAELI | British 19th century statesman who was UK prime minister twice (8) |
| DANIEL | CHLOE'S SIDEPIECE WHILE SHE WAS WITH LUCAS (DAYS) |
| VAIZEY | Ed ****** , Conservative politician who was UK Culture Minister 2010-16 (6) |
| GOWRIE | Grey, peer and poet who served as an arts minister in Margaret Thatcher's government (6) |
| BARBIE | Bestselling 21 whose surname is Margaret Thatcher's maiden name (6) |
| IRONLADY | Nickname of Margaret Thatcher while she was Prime Minister (4,4) |
| EMMA | Last Jane Austen novel published while she was alive |
| MARS | Damages Kristen Bell's teenager Veronica, who solved crimes while she was a student (4) |
| LUCYCOE | HAD AN AFFAIR WITH HER WHILE SHE WAS MARRIED TO ALAN (two words) |
| INPASSING | Nina's pigs scattered while she was doing something else |
| WHITERABBIT | 1967 Jefferson Airplane hit single written by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society |
| ROMYMARS | Nepo baby who made (and deleted) a TikTok while she was grounded for attempting to charter a helicopter to get lunch with her camp friend |
| ITWASME | Admission of guilt in the matter of "who thought it would be funny to draw a mustache on Mom while she was napping," say |
| CLEGG | Which Nick was UK Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-2015? (5) |
| LONGHAIREDLOVER | ____ From Liverpool, song by Jimmy Osmond that was UK Christmas No. 1 in 1972 (4,6,5) |
| DISHEDUP | Meted out while she decorated the exterior (6,2) |
| LORETTAMARTIN | She gets it while she can, on "Let It Be" |
| ALWAYSONMYMIND | Single by the Pet Shop Boys that was UK Christmas No 1 in 1987 (6,2,2,4) |
