| BEVAN | UK Minister for Health from 1945-51 who founded the NHS in 1948 (5) |
| AGGIE | Wife of Edison Bailey who works for the NHS in Corrie (5) |
| SHOPAHOLIC | Silly Soho chap about 51 who can't stop buying stuff (10) |
| YIYUN | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "The Book of Goose," about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
| FLU | Illness that strains the NHS in the winter (3) |
| HOWELL | Denis ___, first UK Minister for Sport (6) |
| FOREIGNSECRETARY | UK minister for international affairs (7,9) |
| CLEMENTATTLEE | British Prime Minister after World War lI who created the National Health Service (7,6) |
| ANNELIESE | And 39ac Aberdonian UK minister who quit over aid cuts (9) |
| MAO | '09 biopic about Li who, at 11, was taken to Beijing to study ballet: ___'s Last Dancer. |
| BEVIN | Ernest -, Foreign Secretary from 1945-51 (5) |
| ATLEE | British PM 1945-51, Clement ..... (5) |
| ATTLEE | Prime minister from 1945-51 whose term saw the creation of the modern welfare state including the fo |
| FRANKDOBSON | Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 1979 to 2015 who served as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999 (5,6) |
| DUNWOODY | Gwyneth ___, Shadow Secretary of State for Health from 1980-83 who died in 2008 (8) |
| PHILHOPE | Former Labour MP who was Minister of State for Health from 2008 to 2010 |
| CHUTEREDE | James ?, Labour MP for South Shields from 1935-64; Home Secretary from 1945-51 |
| DOBSON | Frank ?, former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras; Secretary of State for Health from 1997-99 |
| BOTTOMLEY | Virginia ___, Secretary of State for Health from 1992-95 (9) |
| HEWITT | Patricia ___, Secretary of State for Health from 2005-07 (6) |
