| KVESIC | Matt - - - , Worcester flanker married to a BBC journalist (6) |
| MAMA | 2009-15 Bristol Rugby and 2016-21 Worcester flanker (5,4) |
| BAIRD | Television pioneer, one of the 100 Greatest Britons according to a BBC poll (5) |
| ITV | Yours truly must take the television set to a BBC rival (1,1,1) |
| MARCO | And 15 Across. 2009-15 Bristol Rugby and 2016-21 Worcester flanker (5,4) |
| HUSAIN | Mishal ----, BBC journalist and presenter (6) |
| GLOVER | Fi ......, BBC journalist and host of the Fortunately podcast (6) |
| MASCOT | One should be so lucky to get married to a woman from Glasgow (6) |
| CUBISM | Youngster is married to a movement (6) |
| SENORA | Southeastern woman married to a Spaniard (6) |
| MUPPET | Fool married to a total sulk (6) |
| BRIDGE | Wayne _, retired English footballer married to a Saturday! (6) |
| SECOND | Is this sailor married to a widow? (6,4) |
| DISMAL | Gloomy daughter is married to a student (6) |
| LIZZIE | _ Cundy, celebrity model once married to a footballer (6) |
| TATTON | UK Parliamentary constituency that has been represented by Neil Hamilton, former BBC journalist Martin Bell and George Osborne |
| TIEDON | "Married" to a hand* |
| ROBERTPESTON | BBC journalist probes rotten reforms (6,6) |
| WREN | Known collectively as a herd or a chime and depicted on farthings, the "king of the birds" with a female married to a robin redbreast in an old poem (4) |
| READIED | BBC journalist wearing bright colour set to go? (7) |