| ASHCROFT | Michael, Conservative peer, businessman and pollster with dual British and Belizean nationality (8) |
| MORIARTY | Pollsters with creative criminal thrown over by Holmes (8) |
| GN | Aussie dual British Open golf champion, initials (2) |
| NOBELPEACEPRIZE | Award making Belizean cop peer suspiciously |
| DECAGON | Belizean dollar coin's silhouette |
| ANDABDUL | The Australian state with dual band for the movie set (8,3,5) |
| VICTORIA | The Australian state with dual band for the movie set (8,3,5) |
| CHAINSAW | Conservative peer noticed tool (8) |
| UNDULATE | Rise and fall in tune with dual arrangement |
| EXPORTER | A businessman and his former wife having a drink (8) |
| PAPHITIS | Businessman and former TV Dragon, Theo _ (8) |
| REDPOLLS | Good-natured pollster embraces birds (8) |
| DONTKNOW | One giving (pollster) no opinion |
| EXPENSEACCOUNT | This'll make employer pay former writers and each Conservative peer (7,7) |
| URINATOR | Ruin destroyed a not-unknown Conservative peer (8) |
| ACCOUNTANT | Cashier a Conservative peer and scavenging socialite? (10) |
| DOBBS | Michael -, Conservative politician; author of the House of Cards novel trilogy (5) |
| GOVE | Michael -, Conservative MP for Surrey Heath; Secretary of State for Education from 2010-14 (4) |
| HOWARD | Michael, Conservative politician who succeeded Iain Duncan Smith as leader in 2003 (6) |
| FALLON | Michael, Conservative politician who served as defence secretary from 2014 to 2017 (6) |
