| CLOONEY | Lebanese British barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| AMAL | Lebanese British barrister appointed special envoy on media freedom by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019 (4,7) |
| MITCHELL | George ******** , US senator appointed Special Envoy for Middle East Peace by Barack Obama in 2009 (8) |
| HUGUENOTS | 16th/17th-century French Protestants, allowed some religious and political freedom by the Edict of Nantes (9) |
| PRESS | Hand-out on media freedom? (5,7) |
| RELEASE | Hand-out on media freedom? (5,7) |
| REPRESSIVE | Restricting freedom by the use of force (10) |
| EYED | Observed envoy on vacation with newsman |
| HOWELLS | Kim ?, Labour MP for Pontypridd from 1989-2010; Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2005-08 (7) |
| LORDCHALFONT | Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, 100, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister at the time of the Falklands War (4,8) |
| OWEN | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| DAVID | Doctor and former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; one of the SDP'S original "gang of four" (5,4) |
| RINGL | Which former Ireland rugby international was recently appointed as a special envoy to the US for Northern Ireland by the British government? (8) |
| ALABHAABROWN | Weekly columnist for the i Paper named 2025 Commentator of the Year at the Media Freedom Awards (6,7-5) |
| FINNISH | The foreign and local fish caught (7) |
| OFFICERS | Foreign and Commonwealth Office fires senior staff (8) |
| NSC | A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security. |
| HERMER | Richard ___, barrister appointed attorney general for England and Wales in 2024 (6) |
| UNDERPRIVILEGED | Really poor organisation by the foreign type having special rights (15) |
| RAMBLER | The first rate practitioner by the foreign river is a drifter |
