| GHOSTSTORY | Writes for politician producing dark tale (5,5) |
| UNTIL | Before dark tale oddly swapped positions (5) |
| JOURNALIST | Person who writes for a newspaper or magazine (10) |
| PUTONBOARD | Write for the pupils: "Load the cargo" (3,2,5) |
| TRANSITORY | Brief strain eases for politician (10) |
| CHANCELLOR | Opportunity to turn up for politician (10) |
| WIDDECOMBE | Medic bowed nervously for politician Ann (10) |
| FRONTBENCH | Ministers writing in Times about second and last chance for politician finally joining church (5,5) |
| GREENPARTY | Envious celebration for politicians (5,5) |
| MINISTEROFSTATE | Politician producing trite manifestos |
| FIREDAMP | Sacked a politician producing dangerous gas (8) |
| AMP | A politician producing a current measure (3) |
| NIGELFARAGE | Politician producing nothing, absolutely nothing, but anger touring outskirts of Goole (5,6) |
| ASSONANCE | Idiot, one enthralling African politicians, producing sort of vocal repetition |
| STORIES | Second number of politicians producing lies (7) |
| ARI | Berman who writes for The Nation |
| BLOGS | Writes for the Web, maybe |
| READER | Kind of book, one of those author writes for (6) |
| HERALD | Chester __, newspaper that Nancy Osborne writes for (6) |
| GHOSTS | Writes for another; Ibsen play |
