| SITHARAMAN | Finance Minister who presided over the GST Council meeting to discuss tax rationalization for essential goods. (Last name) (10) |
| EDEN | Anthony **** , British prime minister who presided over the Suez crisis in 1956 (4) |
| HIMUPSTAIRS | One beginning to position essent-ial pockets inside setter's coat? Good Lord! (3,8) |
| IMPROBI | Wicked: qui ____ essent et scelesti, Plautus Miles Gloriosus 3.1.137 |
| ATTILA | The Hun who invaded the Roman Empire (or the hen who presided over the Conservative Party in the Eig |
| MOMOWLAM | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who presided over the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (2,6) |
| GORBACHEV | Russian leader who presided over the end of the Soviet Union (9) |
| PILATE | Surname of the official who presided over the trial of Jesus (6) |
| OCEANID | In Greek mythology, one of the 3,000 goddess-nymphs who presided over the Earth's fresh water |
| DEWITT | Clinton who presided over the construction of the Erie Canal |
| FLEEBAILEY | O.J. defense team member who presided over the "N-word" grilling |
| NIGHTCOURT | 1984-1992 sitcom about a judge who presided over the evening shift: 2 wds. |
| ITO | Judge Lance who presided over the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995 |
| GEORGE | Washington who presided over the Constitutional Convention |
| JEFFREYS | Judge who presided over the 'Bloody Assizes' of 1685 (8) |
| ODIN | God who presided over the Aesir |
| FORUM | A meeting to discuss the Foreign Office with some spirit (5) |
| ANNE | Nicknamed "Brandy Nan" for her alleged disguisement of spirits in tea sets, the Stuart monarch who, despite enduring some 17 instances of maternal loss and ill health, still presided over the Act of U |
| EARLGREY | The 2nd ___, a Whig politician, presided over the passage of the first Reform Act (4,4) |
| HALWA | Distribution of this Indian sweet by the Finance Minister marks the last leg of the budget process |
