| SYNDICS | Business agents created by Cindy confused and sheltering in ship ..... (7) |
| MEMOIR | *"Stronger" by Cindy McCain, e.g. |
| HOUSINGMINISTER | Has a job in government accommodating and sheltering 18 across (7,8) |
| HOMINID | Sheltering in coal scuttle is little primate (7) |
| TESTIER | One sheltering in canopy is more irritable (7) |
| MARXIST | Red Cross is sheltering in place of trade (7) |
| BAGLADY | On the street is she happy sheltering in alcove? (3,4) |
| ZIZANIA | Grass up extreme characters sheltering in a southern quarter of Benghazi |
| AVIGNON | It's good, sheltering in home when river swirls round French town |
| NUNNERY | Artilleryman, losing head, sheltering in NY convent |
| GLADDEN | Thousand is sheltering in the time taken to blow up (10) |
| VAGRANT | Homeless old lady sheltering in barrel |
| ASHENDEN | Secret agent created by W. Somerset Maugham in stories published in 1927 (8) |
| ALEXCROSS | Psychologist and former FBI agent created by James Patterson |
| PENDERGAST | Aloysius --, special agent created by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (10) |
| EVEPOLASTRI | Fictional British intelligence agent, created by Luke Jennings, featured in the 2018 novel Codename Villanelle (3,8) |
| MOTO | Secret agent created by John P. Marquand |
| MRMOTO | Fictional Japanese secret agent created by American author John P Marquand |
| SMILEY | George, fictional British secret agent created by late novelist John le Carre (6) |
| ALEXRIDER | Young MI6 agent created by Anthony Horowitz (4,5) |
