| ROBISON | Shona ----, Deputy First Minister (7) |
| SHONAROBISON | Deputy First Minister (5,7) |
| SEAMUSMALLON | Who became Northern Ireland's first Deputy First Minister in 1999? (6,6) |
| IEUAN | _ Wyn Jones, deputy first minister of Wales 2007- 2011 and leader of Plaid Cymru 2000-2012 (5) |
| WHITNEY | First name of Ms Dean, the EastEnders character who was played by Shona McGarty between 2008 and 2024 (7) |
| AFRICAN | Female in a car crash could be Shona (7) |
| VANESSA | ---- Branson, owner of Eilean Shona island (7) |
| MOIDART | Sea loch with Eilean Shona at entrance (7) |
| AMNESIA | Memory loss that Weatherfield's Shona is recovering from (7) |
| MCGARTY | Shona, English actress who plays Whitney Dean in EastEnders (7) |
| TRIMBLE | David ___ (b.1944), first First Minister of Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2002 (7) |
| PREMIER | First (minister) (7) |
| SALMOND | The First Minister of Scotland 2007-2014 (4,7) |
| TREMBLE | David - former First Minister of Northern Ireland; Quake (7) |
| UNMASKS | Exposes organisation to first minister's questions (7) |
| PAISLEY | Ian ___ , former First Minister of Northern Ireland, d. 2014 (7) |
| SWINNEY | John, politician who became first minister of Scotland in 2024 (7) |
| MALRAUX | France's first minister of culture, 1959-69 |
| MCLEISH | Second person to be First Minister of Scotland (5,2'5) |
| MAZARIN | Italian-born cardinal Jules ____ was France's first minister of state, 1642-61 |
