| OFFICERS | Foreign and Commonwealth Office fires senior staff (8) |
| UGLY | Box office fire: "The Good, the Bad and the ___" is one of the most watched spaghetti westerns in Hollywood's history |
| LORDCHALFONT | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, 100, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister at the time of the Falklands War (4,8) |
| HOWELLS | Kim ?, Labour MP for Pontypridd from 1989-2010; Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2005-08 (7) |
| CLOONEY | Barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| AMAL | Lebanese British barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| TEACHERS | Senior staff deal with almost all of the hard cases (4,8) |
| HEADHUNT | MFH may seek senior staff |
| SCRAMBLE | Hurry from senior staff room, then walk slowly |
| TOPHEAVY | (Of an organisation) having too many senior staff |
| OWEN | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| DAVID | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| CHATAWAY | Christopher ........ , 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 3 mile gold medallist; first winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (8) |
| HEAD | Senior staff deal with almost all of the hard cases (4,8) |
| ASCOT | Commonwealth Office in a street somewhere in Berkshire (5) |
| CHAIR | Head of college locks position for its senior staff (5) |
| HIDE | Senior staff nurse played by Jason Durr in Casualty (5,4) |
| HEADWAITER | Draw heat, that is, from senior staff (4,6) |
| HEADMISTRESSES | Senior staff oddly timid during Ashes series (14) |
| BUTLER | Senior staff member gives every other orderly thumbs up |
