| PERSONAGRATA | Fully acceptable person, such as a diplomat in a foreign country (7,5) |
| SATISFACTORY | Fully acceptable |
| ENPOSTE | As a diplomat, in an official role in a specific location |
| OSLO | 2021 HBO film starring Ruth Wilson as a diplomat in Norway |
| WELCOMEPERSON | Acceptable person |
| NAIROBI | The Constant Gardener's Justin Quayle was a diplomat in this Kenyan city |
| AMBASSADRESS | Diplomat in a business graduate's second home, say |
| FLIPFLOP | A soggy mess of food; a blundering use of a word; a person, such as a character in Joseph Andrews, guilty of said malapropism; an alternative name for a rubber thong; or, twaddle (8) |
| BROKERATRUCE | Establish peace, as a diplomat might |
| PUBLICENEMY | A notorious person, such as a criminal, who is regarded as a menace to others (6,5) |
| MAIDENVOYAGE | Wizard about to assist diplomat in journey after cracking bubbly? |
| ARTIST | Creative person such as a goldsmith, illustrator, oil painter, potter, sculptor or watercolourist; or, a performer in music (6) |
| HANDLER | Person such as a police officer working with trained dogs; or, a boxer's coach (7) |
| DRUDGE | A person, such as a servant, who works hard at wearisome menial tasks (6) |
| COLLECTOR | A person such as a philatelist (9) |
| MAHATMA | In the Indian subcontinent, title given to a revered person such as Mohandas Gandhi (7) |
| MEDIUM | A person such as Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit |
| THEHORN | Spiky sort seen with diplomat in a cape |
| PERCAPITA | Of or for each person, such as the income of each person (3,6) |
| LAZAR | Archaic word for a poor and diseased person, such as one afflicted by leprosy (5) |
