| POLITIC | Wise polemicists ignoring mess (7) |
| SEISMIC | When potty polemicists lose plot it's like the earth has moved (7) |
| OMINOUS | Polemicist at heart, in no sense threatening |
| PTOMAINE | Self-consumed radical polemicist producing poisonous stuff (8) |
| SHOCK | Broadcasting polemicist, white knave hit screens (5,4) |
| JOCK | Broadcasting polemicist, white knave hit screens (5,4) |
| BANNON | Steve __, right-wing US polemicist (6) |
| DEVILSADVOCATE | Time to lock up nefarious, miserable and very old Conservative polemicist (6,8) |
| PUGIN | Architect, polemicist and principal proponent of the Gothic revival who wrote Contrasts and collaborated with Sir Charles Barry on the detail, fittings and furnishings of the Palace of Westminster (5) |
| BEHN | Playwright, poet, polemicist, prisoner and Charles II's spy, whose Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, based on Lord Grey and Lady Henrietta Berkeley, is said by some to be England's first |
| SINCERE | True as true, ignoring the odds (7) |
| PRESAGE | Forecast by media ignoring second generation (7) |
| SEMINAL | Influential in workshop, ignoring right line (7) |
| ENVELOP | Hide jealousy, ignoring unknown staff getting backing (7) |
| PENANCE | Writer to risk ignoring church act of atonement (7) |
| EVICTED | Put out directive ignoring Irish revolutionary (7) |
| UTILISE | Pointless ignoring fellow capturing one's exploit (7) |
| MISSING | Ignoring |
| NEGLECT | Ignoring |
| FAILING | Ignoring |
