| LAMMY | David __ MP, Shadow Secretary of State for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs (5) |
| DAVID | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| OWEN | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| REEVES | Rachel ___ MP, shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (6) |
| STATEDEPARTMENT | U.S. body that is equivalent to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (5,10) |
| LAWS | David __, MP who spent 17 days as chief secretary to the Treasury in 2010 (4) |
| KING | The location of the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (4,7,6) |
| CHARLES | The location of the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (4,7,6) |
| STREET | The location of the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (4,7,6) |
| NANDY | The current shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (4,5) |
| SEEMA | ___ Malhotra MP, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury (5) |
| CABLE | Vince ___, MP for Twickenham; Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats for two months in 2007 (5) |
| NITRO | Name of the Gladiator, a Commonwealth and World gold medallist sprinter, who took part in Celebrity MasterChef in 2024 (5) |
| LISA | The current shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (4,5) |
| TEDDYTAYLOR | Eurosceptic MP who was shadow secretary of state for Scotland under Margaret Thatcher (5,6) |
| RADIO | Heads of research and development inveighing against old means of spreading the word (5) |
| DUNWOODY | Gwyneth ___, Shadow Secretary of State for Health from 1980-83 who died in 2008 (8) |
| IDLER | Won't work to upset all the Spanish in research and development institute (5) |
| RANDD | New product design and development takes place in this division of a corporation (1,3,1) |
| STUNT | Retard the growth and development of |
