| GREELEY | US journalist and editor of the New York Tribune which championed the abolition of Slavery (7) |
| HACKEDOFF | Annoyed, when unscrupulous journalist and editor get zero fines (6,3) |
| PRESSED | Exerted force on journalists and editor (7) |
| REPRESSED | Again the journalists and editor sat on the story (9) |
| IMPRESSED | Influenced journalists and editor to follow that bloke from EastEnders (9) |
| MITFORD | Author of The Pursuit of Love and editor of Noblesse Oblige in which she included a glossary of "U" and "non-U" usage (7) |
| MIDJUNE | When the abolition of slavery is commemorated |
| AMINOTA | "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ man and a brother?" from a medallion for the 1780s British Abolition of Slavery made by famed potter Josiah Wedgwood (great-greatgrandfather of Josiah Wedgwood, MP and lifelong Zionist |
| DIDEROT | Denis ___, French enlightenment philosopher and editor of the Encyclopedie (7) |
| SHRIVER | US journalist and author married to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1986 to 2021 (5,7) |
| WILLIAM | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| JOHNGREENLEAFWHITTIER | US Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery who wrote Snow-Bound and the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (4,9,8) |
| REID | Whitelaw ?, editor of the New York Tribune; United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1905-12 (4) |
| PACKARD | Vance ?, US journalist; author of 1957 book The Hidden Persuaders (7) |
| GREY | Whig politician whose term as prime minister saw the passage of the Reform Act and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (4) |
| CHARLESFOX | An 18th-century British statesman who supported the French Revolution, American independence and the abolition of slavery (7,3) |
| GREENLEAF | John __ Whittier, US Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery |
| STUCKUP | Championed the conceited (5-2) |
| DANA | Charles Anderson ___, owner and editor of the New York Sun, 1868-97 |
| PEARSON | US journalist Drew |
