| CLERICS | Ministers, for instance |
| ELECTEES | Campaigners voted in as Prime Minister, for instance |
| CHALKER | Lynda ___, MP for Wallasey from 1974-92; Minister for Europe from 1986-89 (7) |
| TONYBANKS | Labour MP for West Ham; Minister for Sport from 1997-99 (4,5) |
| HOEY | Kate ___, Labour MP for Vauxhall since 1989; Minister for Sport from 1999-2001 (4) |
| FIELD | Frank ?, Labour MP for Birkenhead; Minister for Welfare Reform from 1997-98 (5) |
| ORME | Stanley ?, Labour MP for both Salford East and Salford West; Minister for Social Security from 1976-79 (4) |
| BUDGETED | What the minister for finance did in retrospect put off, for the most part, great person living in The East (8) |
| MERCOURI | Melina ?, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Never on Sunday; Minister for Culture of Greece from 1981-89 and 1993-94 |
| BUDGETSPEECH | Shift to Right is final - talk is, the Minister for Finance is responsible for it (6,6) |
| MOYNIHAN | Colin ?, 1983-92 Conservative MP for Lewisham East; 1987-90 Minister for Sport |
| KATEHOEY | Labour MP for Vauxhall since 1989; Minister for Sport from 1999-2001 (4,4) |
| NEWAUSTRALIAN | Term coined by Arthur Calwell, minister for immigration, for a non- British migrant to his country (3,10) |
| PREET | --- Gill, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development and Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston (5) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| TONY | Labour MP for West Ham from 1997-2005; Minister for Sport from 1997-99 |
| BANKS | Labour MP for West Ham from 1997-2005; Minister for Sport from 1997-99 |
| INDIA | For which country was Shri Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for the third time in June 2024? (5) |
| TITLE | Governor General or Prime Minister, for example |
| CLERIC | Minister for 150 at Morecambe? (6) |
