| POSTMERIDIEM | Late in the day for British prime minister to be so short (4,8) |
| SPENCER | 9dn Only British Prime Minister to be assassinated (7,8) |
| THATCHER | Artisan who makes roofs from long straw, wheat straw or water reed; or, the prime minister to be portrayed by Gillian Anderson in series four of The Crown (8) |
| BARTON | Old prime minister to be put in livestock shelter |
| IRONLADY | Name coined by the Soviet magazine Red Star for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (4,4) |
| IREMEMBERYOU | A big hit back in the day for Frank Ifield (1,8,3) |
| WINSTONCHURCHILL | The only British prime minister to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| ANDREWBONARLAW | The only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles (6,5,3) |
| PALMERSTON | Viscount, the last British Prime Minister to die while in office (10) |
| EVEN | It's a bit late in the day for the poet to be flat (4) |
| PERCEVAL | Spencer ---, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated (8) |
| SUNSET | It's a bit late in the day for such sets to join the United Nations |
| BLEEP | Warning British prime minister to retire |
| MOURN | Early in the day for poet, say, to lament? |
| EVENTIDE | It's a bit late in the day for a poet (8) |
| EVE | Bit late in the day for this early bird (3) |
| GMA | ABC TV show that airs early in the day, for short |
| AFTERNOON | High time for the Prime Minister to get a late wake-up call? (9) |
| ATTLEE | Clement __, the only deputy prime minister to become prime minister (6) |
| EEN | Late in the day, for poets |
