| SHONAROBISON | Deputy First Minister (5,7) |
| SEAMUSMALLON | Who became Northern Ireland's first Deputy First Minister in 1999? (6,6) |
| ROBISON | Shona ----, Deputy First Minister (7) |
| IEUAN | _ Wyn Jones, deputy first minister of Wales 2007- 2011 and leader of Plaid Cymru 2000-2012 (5) |
| DAVIDTRIMBLE | Politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998-2002) |
| RHODRIMORGAN | First Minister of Wales from 2000-09 |
| ANDREMALRAUX | Writer and France's first Minister of Culture (5,7) |
| PERFECTSTORM | With retrospect, first minister created a bad situation (7,5) |
| PAISLEYPRINT | Former First Minister with proof of Iranian design (7,5) |
| ANEURINBEVAN | Welsh MP who helped to create the NHS as the UK's first minister of health, 1945-1951 (7,5) |
| LEGAS | You alone may read (3rd) or you pick, aliquem, as a deputy (1st) |
| IANPAISLEY | Late Northern Ireland politician and Presbyterian minister, First Minister of Northern Ireland 2007-2008 (3,7) |
| TRIMBLE | David ___ (b.1944), first First Minister of Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2002 (7) |
| FOSTER | Arlene, Democratic Unionist politician who was Northern Ireland's first female First Minister (6) |
| DEWAR | Scotland's first First Minister of French war (5) |
| FACIALHAIR | What bodily feature was the first to be seen on a First minister?! (6,4) |
| MALRAUX | France's first minister of culture, 1959-69 |
| STURGEON | About time he operates as first minister (8) |
| PREMIER | First (minister) (7) |
| ALMOND | First Minister shaves head ___ nutty thing (6) |
