| WALSINGHAM | Francis _, principal secretary and spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I (10) |
| CROMWELL | Blacksmith's son who served as Cardinal Wolsey's lawyer, later obtaining office as master of the king's jewel house and Henry VIII's principal secretary and adviser (8) |
| ROGERASCHAM | English humanist scholar and writer who served as tutor (1548-50) and Latin secretary (1558-68) to Queen Elizabeth I (5,6) |
| TUTOR | Roger Ascham, to Queen Elizabeth I |
| OLDMAID | Ex-spymaster to help very cautious person (3,4) |
| GMAN | FBI agent and spymaster involved in setting up bug (1-3) |
| REARM | Back spymaster to gain weapons again (5) |
| SEEM | Spy and spymaster appear (4) |
| STRAWBERRY | Home Secretary and rock'n'roll guitarist: one's barren, another's wild (10) |
| GINPALACES | Taverns, showy and grand, attracting Home Secretary and doctors |
| ROYJENKINS | Ex-Labour Chancellor and Home Secretary and the SDP's first leader (3,7) |
| HOARELAVAL | & 11A Secret proposal of 1935 made by the British Foreign Secretary and prime minister of France to end the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (5-5,4) |
| ORDINALNUMBERS | Fancy Dublin manor's home to Queen Elizabeth the First and Second? |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ___, principal minister to Louis XIII (9) |
| BUSSELL | Darcey ___, principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet from 1989 to 2006 (7) |
| HONEYPOT | Designed toy phone device used by spymasters to lure (8) |
| RECALLS | Is about to ring up the First Secretary, and takes it all back (7) |
| HURD | Douglas ---, Conservative politician who served as Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary (4) |
| RABBUTLER | Postwar Conservative home secretary, foreign secretary and chancellor |
| HOON | Geoff -, Labour politican who has been Defence Secretary and Transport Secretary (4) |
