| PETERHAIN | Former Anti-Apartheid Movement activist and Labour minister created a life peer in 2015 |
| PERFECTSTORM | With retrospect, first minister created a bad situation (7,5) |
| MARSHA | Transgender rights movement activist ___ P. Johnson |
| EVAPERON | Argentina's de facto health and labour minister in the early 1950s |
| NYERERE | President and Labour Minister of Health embraced the Queen twice (7) |
| ONETIME | Former anti-semite now retreating, in part |
| ASBO | Former anti-yob order (4) |
| SHAMI | ___ Chakrabarti, UK activist and Labour peer (5) |
| KING | Former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, created a life peer in 2011 (4,4) |
| OONA | Former Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, created a life peer in 2011 (4,4) |
| ALAN | And 14 British business magnate created a life peer in 2009 (4,5) |
| ALEXCARLILE | Former LibDem MP for Montgomeryshire, from 1983 to 1997, created a life peer in 1999 |
| TANNI | - - - Grey-Thompson, multiple gold medal-winning Paralympian created a life peer in 2010 (5) |
| WEBBER | Andrew Lloyd _, musical theatre composer created a life peer in 1997 (6) |
| THOMPSON | Multi-gold medal winning Paralympian created a life peer in 2010 (5,4-8) |
| GREY | Multi-gold medal winning Paralympian created a life peer in 2010 (5,4-8) |
| LEW | UK television mogul ... Grade was made a knight in 1969 and a life peer in 1976 |
| MELVYNBRAGG | Broadcaster and author appointed a life peer in 1998, presenter of The South Bank Show (6,5) |
| BLACKSTONE | Tessa ___, university administrator and politician who became a Life Peer in 1987 |
| BRAGG | Melvyn ---, broadcaster and author made a life peer in 1998 (5) |