| STANLEYBALDWIN | Novel by Sitwell and an ex-PM (7,7) |
| EDITHS | Poet Sitwell and singer Piaf |
| FERGIE | Sobriquet shared by a duchess and an ex-football manager |
| ESTHER | ___ McVey, Conservative politician first elected as an MP in 2010, and an ex-GMTV presenter (6) |
| MAYFAIR | Just behind an ex. PM in London (7) |
| THERESAMAY | That place, South Africa, might, for an ex-PM (7,3) |
| ENSHEATHE | Return to the case, seen curiously to be about an ex-PM (9) |
| MAJOR | Rank as an ex prime minister (5) |
| FACADE | Series of poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton in an 'entertainment' first performed in public in 1923 |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| BELSHAZZARSFEAST | Cantata by Sir William Walton with libretto by Osbert Sitwell, based on biblical sources (11,5) |
| EDITH | Dame ___ Sitwell, poet and critic of the early 20th century (5) |
| ASTALL | "Jane, Jane, ___ as a crane": Sitwell |
| RAIN | "Still Falls the __": Edith Sitwell poem |
| MEREDITH | Novelist just overlapping with Sitwell |
| ANGLER | Eg Walton's fury about Sitwell, ultimately |
| EDIT | Check Sitwell after leaving hospital |
| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| STILLWATERS | Ones that run deep, for the star of the Sitwell generation (5,6) |
| PEKINGESE | "Why not be oneself?" asked Dame Edith Sitwell. "That is the whole secret of a successful appearance |
