| SEN | Member of one of the houses of Congress: Abbr. |
| STATE | - - - of the Union, an annual address given by the US president to both houses of Congress (5) |
| THEUNION | State of --- ---, an annual address given by the US president to both Houses of Congress (3,5) |
| JOINTCOMMITTEE | Group with members from both houses of Congress |
| CHAMBER | A room; an underground cavern; a hall of justice; one of the houses of parliament; or, part of a gun bore (7) |
| SARACEN | Member of one of the nomadic Arabic tribes of the Syrian desert that harassed the borders of the Roman Empire (7) |
| SENATE | ... seen at one of the houses of Parliament (6) |
| RAVENCLAW | One of the houses of Hogwarts |
| ACHAEAN | A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks. |
| PEER | Any member of one of the degrees of nobility in the UK (4) |
| SMYTH | Composer of The March of the Women suffrage anthem jailed for throwing a rock through a window of the Houses of Parliament (5) |
| BIGBEN | What is the name of the hour bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster? (3,3) |
| CHINDIT | A member of one of Brigadier Wingate's long-range penetration groups in the Burma campaign of the Second World War (7) |
| DEMOCRAT | Member of one of the main political parties in the USA |
| FAITHFUL | Member of one of the groups on The Traitors (8) |
| PROTESTANT | Member of one of the main divisions of Christianity (10) |
| ADDRESS | Notice style in one of the houses on the street? (7) |
| STRAW | Like one of the houses destroyed by the Big Bad Wolf |
| BIG | Nickname of the bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (3,3) |
| BEN | Nickname of the bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (3,3) |
