| IANBLAIR | Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005-08 |
| DENSITY | The compactness of the metropolis of squats, reportedly (7) |
| HOWELLS | Kim ?, Labour MP for Pontypridd from 1989-2010; Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2005-08 (7) |
| OGPU | The secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934 (4) |
| CHEKA | First secret police of the Soviet Union, set up by the Bolshevik government in 1917 and reorganised as the GPU in 1922 (5) |
| EASTSIDE | Ideas set out in part of the metropolis (4,4) |
| CITYCENTRE | Heart of the metropolis, is it? (4,6) |
| NYGAARD | Marc ....... , Denmark striker at QPR from 2005-08 (7) |
| HLEB | Alexander former Belarus midfielder with Arsenal from 2005-08 (4) |
| ALEXANDER | ......... Hleb, former Belarus winger with Arsenal from 2005-08 (9) |
| STASI | Secret police of the former German Democratic Republic (5) |
| GESTAPO | Secret police of the Nazis |
| KGB | State security police of the former Soviet Union (3) |
| METOPIC | Old picture taken by police of the forehead (7) |
| DOMESDAYBOOK | The record of a survey of the land of England carried out by the commissioners of William I in 1086 (8,4) |
| TRENCHARD | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who founded the police college at Hendon (9) |
| BULGARIA | The KGB and the secret police of this Soviet-bloc nation were suspects in the death of Georgi Markov |
| ROMANIA | The secret police of this former eastern bloc country was the "Securitate", disbanded following the fall of its dictator in 1989 (7) |
| ODO | '--- of Bayeaux', probable commissioner of the Tapestry (3) |
| DICK | Cressida --, officer appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service in 2017 (4) |
