| FOXHUNT | Two Cameron Cabinet ministers meet, preceding this? (3,4) |
| DIRECTORGENERAL | BBC boss, police officer and minister meet brass hat (8-7) |
| SLIPPER | Lady's preceding this type of orchid! (7) |
| GASOVEN | Where roasting's likely when Cabinet Minister's touring north (3,4) |
| SCANDAL | 1989 film with Joanne Whalley Kilmer based on a 1963 British cabinet minister's resignation (7) |
| SHUFFLE | Word for a foot-dragging walk; a dance with sliding footwork; a piece of artifice, equivocation or subterfuge; or, a mix-up, randomisation or reorganisation, as in cards, music tracks or cabinet minis |
| BASSETT | Cabinet minister in the Lange government who went on to write biographies of several New Zealand Prime Ministers (7) |
| PROFUMO | ___ Affair (1960s sex scandal involving a Conservative cabinet minister) |
| HARPOON | Cabinet minister holding defence arrangements - a spear (7) |
| RICHARD | Former Labour cabinet minister known for his indiscreet diaries (7,8) |
| DORRIES | I'm a Celebrity... loser, 2012; cabinet minister, 2021- ? (6,7) |
| BOATENG | see 6dn, Labour Party politician who became the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in 2002 |
| ULT | Of the month preceding this one, in short (3) |
| ULTIMO | In the month preceding this one |
| ARTHOUSE | Accommodate creative work preceding this in venue catering to minority interests |
| RTHON | Abbreviation of a title given to privy councillors and cabinet ministers (2,3) |
| RIGHTHONOURABLE | Title of respect for past cabinet ministers (5,10) |
| HOMESECRETARIES | Some Cabinet Ministers, in private, get unexpected raise (4,11) |
| CARS | Limits cabinet ministers having more than one for the road (4) |
| AGO | Preceding this point |
