| KLAUS | and 1ac, Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| FUCHS | Klaus ?, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| KLAUSFUCHS | German-born physicist who, in the 1940s, gave secret American, British and Canadian atomic research information to the Soviet Union (5,5) |
| GESTURE | Gets in trouble with the union about the sign (7) |
| OUDH | Historic region of N Central India merged with Agra (1877) to form the modern state (1950) of Uttar Pradesh (4) |
| MALTA | Country with the smallest national capital in the European Union (about 9,000 people) |
| TENURE | Clear up with head of union about right to remain in post |
| HISTORICAL | Chap's initially convicted in court case after earlier involvement of nothing from the past |
| PRESSOFFICE | It releases information to the papers and offers spice for a change (5,6) |
| TREASON | Betrayal of one's country as by yielding vital information to the enemy |
| EXMEROMOTU | European Union about to further Middlesex after backing of its own accord |
| THATCHER | This son of a long-time British prime minister was convicted in a South African court over matters connected with the 'Equatorial Guinea affair'; Mark ... |
| SENTENCE | What is punishment allotted to a person convicted in a criminal trial? (8) |
| DREYFUS | French Army officer wrongly convicted in 1894 of being a German spy |
| PRESSRELEASE | Urge one to deliver official information to the media (5,7) |
| TIPTOED | Went quietly to give inside information to the editor (7) |
| NEWSAGENCY | Purveyor of information to the media (4,6) |
| LEAK | Disclosure of secret information to the press (4) |
| RATON | Give incriminating information to the police (about a person) (3,2) |
| MASSMEDIUM | A means of conveying information to the public (4,6) |
