| HITCHENS | Christopher ........, journalist and controversialist (8) |
| ERISTIC | Controversialist |
| DEBATER | Controversialist is badly berated (7) |
| MARGUERITE | Flower child welcomes controversialist |
| VITRIOL | Agitated controversialist renounces ancestors, showing bitter malice |
| THOMPSON | Hunter S. ---, American journalist and author who wrote the novel Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (8) |
| DIMBLEBY | Richard _, British journalist and broadcaster who hosted BBC1's Panorama between 1957 and 1955 (8) |
| MARIELLA | Oslo-born journalist and presenter announced as the UK Menopause Employment Ambassador last month (8,8) |
| FROSTRUP | Oslo-born journalist and presenter announced as the UK Menopause Employment Ambassador last month (8,8) |
| LETTERED | One renting with journalist and academic (8) |
| RANDOLPH | ___ Churchill, journalist and politician, only son of Winston (8) |
| PEDESTAL | Support journalist and set out to enter China (8) |
| SERGEANT | Retired journalist and former Strictly dancer, John _ (8) |
| ROBINSON | Carolyn ___, NZ TV journalist and news presenter (8) |
| ATHERTON | Mike __, journalist and former England cricket captain (8) |
| ALASTAIR | ___ Campbell, journalist and podcaster (8) |
| HASTINGS | Max, journalist and military historian born in 1945 (8) |
| REFLEXED | The French referee at first got cross with journalist and responded to stimulus (8) |
| EMBEDDED | English doctor hides plot from journalist and some writers in army (8) |
| EDITRESS | She's a journalist and tries to adapt when among editors (8) |
