| WHITEWASHES | In the end, though, the media portrayed the press conference as bland and amicable -- the latest in |
| SPRINGONIONS | The're green and immature and are charged in the end, though first season only half available |
| THATSLIFE | Which Frank Sinatra song did Arlene Foster sing some lines from in her final press conference as First Minister? (5,4) |
| SUMMIT | High-level conference, as the Fed's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium |
| INSIPID | Trendy drink I introduce disparagingly as bland (7) |
| PURPLEPROSE | The overdramatic speaker at the press conference was known for using ___ ... |
| REPORTERSSAT | What happened just before the press conference started |
| NEWSPEAK | Used to confuse at the press conference? (8) |
| HOTTER | Not as bland |
| EASIER | I see a struggle right to the end, though less arduous (6) |
| HARDENED | Having got set, heard out to the end, though worried (8) |
| WALLPAPER | Exam with a fifty-fifty at the start - it's bland and unoriginal |
| ANODYNE | The youngest Bronte, oddly, takes every other one, assuming them to be bland and inoffensive |
| DWELL | Live in dead end, though quite healthy (5) |
| TESTY | Try to the very end, though irritable (5) |
| CALLBY | Accountant and lawyer the latest in company to drop in (4,2) |
| ARMAMENT | A fighting group having the last word to get the latest in excellent equipment (8) |
| UPFORGRABS | Cheery conman unloading the latest in exercise and six-pack obtainable (2,3,5) |
| TOMBAKER | He portrayed the fourth and longest incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who (3,5) |
| DALY | Tim ___, actor who portrayed the First Gentleman of the United States in the political drama Madam Secretary (4) |
