| ROYALBLUE | Constituents of Ely, Labour? A shade Conservative |
| ELUNED | Forename of Baroness Morgan of Ely, first minister of Wales (6) |
| HEREWARD | An 11th-century leader of resistance to the Normans, based at the Isle of Ely (8) |
| HEREWARDTHEWAKE | Anglo-Saxon nobleman who, from the Isle of Ely, led resistance to the Normans after their 1066 invasion of England (8,3,4) |
| SWEETLY | Delightfully observed in the West of Ely (7) |
| ISLE | -- of Ely, Dogs, Man (4) |
| FENS | Low-lying area including the cathedral city of Ely |
| FLYONTHEWALL | Discreet observer following development of Ely town hall (3,2,3,4) |
| EVERYWAY | Extremely old man found in perimeter of Ely common (8) |
| CAM | River that flows into the Great Ouse to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner |
| AMOS | Baroness _, Labour Life Peer; Leader of the House of Lords (2003-07) |
| DARLING | Alistair _, Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (2007-10) |
| MILNE | Seumas ___, Labour Party director of communications (5) |
| HEALEY | Denis ___, Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-79 |
| DESTROY | Eliminate your lot with exchange of constituents of iron (7) |
| BENZENE | A volatile mixture of the lighter aliphatic hydrocarbon constituents of petroleum (7) |
| TRIBUTE | Tax the leader of Tripoli and the constituents of Beirut (7) |
| COGNAC | One of the three alcoholic constituents of the cocktail Between the sheets (6) |
| NITROGEN | One of the three major constituents of Earth's atmosphere (8) |
| PREDICATE | One of the two main constituents of a sentence, containing the verb and its complements (9) |
