| FOODBANK | Support for poor people that is considered by Jacob Rees-Mogg to be "uplifting" (4,4) |
| BRAINDRAIN | The emigration of highly trained or qualified people, that is detrimental to a society (5,5) |
| YAM | Staple crop for the Igbo people that is honored in a late-summer festival |
| ENERGETIC | Very active base, new group run by Rees-Mogg to call back (9) |
| EDIFYING | One is inside defying new order to be uplifting (8) |
| CHEERING | Reaching one leaving, at the end, turns out to be uplifting (8) |
| PALATINE | Hill in Rome that is considered to be where it was founded (8) |
| DELICACY | A rare or expensive food that is considered especially nice to eat (8) |
| HAVENOTS | Many heading off in pursuit of refuge for poor people (4-4) |
| LONGJUMP | 2023 and 2024 British Athletics Championships field event won by Jacob Fincham-Dukes (4,4) |
| POLITICO | Racy compilation man censored for Rees-Mogg? (8) |
| PRIVYCOUNCIL | Body of advisors to the Sovereign of the UK whose current head is Jacob Rees-Mogg |
| HYPHENED | Promoted over a woman, like Rees-Mogg (8) |
| JACOBEAN | Rees-Mogg and nob sharing British archaic clothing style? (8) |
| UPLANDS | "The broad, sunlit ____ that are awaiting us" (Jacob Rees-Mogg on Brexit, partly quoting Winston Churchill) (7) |
| BAKINGSODA | Asking a bod to attempt to be uplifting for the cook (6,4) |
| BONVIVEUR | Violent uni bovver for Jacob Rees-Mogg? |
| EUROSCEPTIC | I prosecute criminal Conservative like Jacob Rees-mogg (11) |
| ERG | Jacob Rees-Mogg et al (3) |
| WILT | -- Chamberlain, he is considered by some to be the greatest basketball player ever (4) |
