| GOWRIE | Grey, peer and poet who served as an arts minister in Margaret Thatcher's government (6) |
| EDWINA | __ Currie, author and former health minister in the Thatcher government (6) |
| BETJEMAN | Sir John ___, English poet who served as Poet laureate from 1972 to 1984 (8) |
| SLEDGE | In 2020, Arts Minister Helen Whately stopped the export of a ____ and flag used by Shackleton in 1907 |
| LADDERS | Runs in Margaret Thatcher's stockings |
| TRANSMITTER | Tense arts minister when upset is missing source of messages? (11) |
| VOYSEY | An Arts and Crafts architect and designer who created patterns for textiles and wallpaper based on animal and bird life (6) |
| JEKYLL | With a David Austin rose named after her, an Arts and Crafts garden designer and Country Life contributor noted for collaborations with Edwin Lutyens (6) |
| BALLET | Formal dance, and French dance as an art form (6) |
| CINEMA | From the Greek for "movement" and "to write", a movie theatre or picture house; or, the production of motion pictures as an art/industry (6) |
| ASHLEY | ___ Wilkes, character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (6) |
| BUTLER | Leading male character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (5,6) |
| OFFRED | Main character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| GILEAD | Republic of -; the fictional totalitarian theocracy in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| INGHAM | Bernard ---, Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary while she was UK prime minister (6) |
| TANDEM | In Margaret and Emma see two people working together |
| BABOON | Stupid person an arts graduate given advantage |
| SERENA | ___ Joy (Former televangelist character in Margaret Atwood novel The handmaid's Tale) |
| BARBIE | Bestselling 21 whose surname is Margaret Thatcher's maiden name (6) |
| MACRAM | Came out with stuff as an art form (7) |
