| INGHAM | Bernard, late press secretary to Margaret Thatcher as prime minister (6) |
| KOPS | Bernard **** , late writer noted for his play 'The Hamlet of Stepney Green' (4) |
| OBITUARY | Late Press item (8) |
| MAJOR | Who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister? (5) |
| HAINES | Joe, press secretary to Labour prime minister Harold Wilson (6) |
| SPICER | Former US press secretary to add excitement to start of race (6) |
| AMANDA | ___ Platell, journalist and former press secretary to William Hague (6) |
| REEDER | Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy (6) |
| FATHER | Legend, very generous sort, Mrs Thatcher - as if! (6,9) |
| NUTMEG | Head locally to Margaret in Mace (6) |
| WHITELAW | William, Conservative politician who served as deputy prime minister to Margaret Thatcher (8) |
| SCRIBE | Secretary to lawyer gets to tease ultimate judge (6) |
| ASCHAM | Tudor "Scholemaster" and toxophilite who served as Latin secretary to Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I (6) |
| YVETTE | First British woman to become Chief Secretary to the Treasury, ... Cooper |
| RIZZIO | David, personal secretary to Mary Queen of Scots who was assassinated in 1566 (6) |
| CASPAR | --- Weinberger, defence secretary to Ronald Reagan 1981-87 (6) |
| PARADE | Dare secretary to arrange procession (6) |
| PASSIM | Secretary to skip around everywhere (6) |
| EXPAND | Termination's accepted by secretary to produce growth |
| STREET | see 14ac, Secretary to Perry Mason in stories by Erle Stanley Gardner |
