| RTI | This Act mandates timely response to citizen requests for government information (Abbr.) |
| QUICKTURNAROUND | Timely response time, and a theme hint |
| NATIONALDEBT | We Irish owe all of this to citizen setting up Foundation on time (8,4) |
| SLED | Childhood possession named Rosebud which belonged to Citizen Kane in the film of the same name (4) |
| PRESIDENT | Leader's power given to citizen (9) |
| PERFORMINGFLEA | Does one itch to see this act at the circus? (10,4) |
| CDRS | They may be burned in order to preserve information: Abbr. |
| SIGNED | Activists accuse government of performing this act with a pen at the global climate conferences, but back home they pursue fossil fuel exploration with gusto. (6) |
| JUGGLERY | Drop everything if this act goes wrong? (8) |
| OVERSIGHT | Supervisor's charged with this act of negligence |
| FANDANCE | Enthusiast's on the ball with this act |
| REPRISAL | I spare LR from this act of retaliation (8) |
| ANAGRAM | Magna Carta could be the result of this Act |
| ISSUANCE | Can freely emerge outside with this act of making things available (8) |
| ASHOTINTHEDARK | Nighttime photographers might like this act with an unforeseen outcome (1,4,2,3,4) |
| TORPEDO | This acts as a destroyer when put to sea at great speed! (7) |
| ANTHONY | "We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever." Born in 1820, she was a p |
| CIVILI | Belonging to citizens; sanguine___rem confluent, Lucretius DRN 3.70 |
| CIVIL | Of or belonging to citizens / non-military / polite; obliging |
| CIVIC | Relating to citizens from the west or the east? (5) |
