| FILIBUSTER | Tactic of speaking at length to obstruct the passage of legislation in a parliament or congress (10) |
| LOGROLLING | Vote-trading to secure the passage of legislation (3-7) |
| FILIBUSTERER | One speaking at length to block legislation (12) |
| WILE | Trick of speaking at length (4) |
| BARRIER | Anything serving to obstruct the passage or progress (7) |
| INTERSECT | Obstruct the passage of (9) |
| URGENCY | Procedural term for when Parliament decides to speed up passage of legislation (7) |
| PROROGUE | To discontinue the meetings of a parliament or other legislative assembly without dissolving it (8) |
| FILIBUSTERED | Spoke at length to obstruct progress (12) |
| ROOKS | Corvids known collectively as a parliament; or, chess pieces, originally representing elephantine war carriages known as "castles" (5) |
| ACTOF | Lead-in to God or Congress |
| SESSION | Elevated rumours about start of sex or congress? |
| LONGWINDED | Speaking at length (4-6) |
| BLOCKHOUSE | Fortification to obstruct the building (10) |
| ADDRESSING | Speaking, at short notice, coming into line (10) |
| ENGLISHACCENT | Stress picked up in Oxford, in a manner of speaking, at a college close to capital (7,6) |
| CHAMBER | A room; an underground cavern; a hall of justice; one of the houses of parliament; or, part of a gun bore (7) |
| ROOK | One of a "building", "parliament" or "storytelling" of crow-like passerine birds; or, a chess piece moved in the same turn as a king when castling (4) |
| PARTYLINES | Tactics of shared telephone circuits (5,5) |
| TAKECOVER | Go into hiding with Nick from Cobh, in a manner of speaking, at end of the war (4,5) |
