| LETTERWRITER | Correspondent in 19 down has 25 across (6,6) |
| GUADELOUPE | Caribbean country which has 25 across as its official language (10) |
| INDIA | It has 25 states |
| PIECEOFEIGHT | Most of those in 25 across and nearly all those in 19 down following order to open fire in old Spanish capital (5,2,5) |
| AGNEW | Former cricketer who stepped down as BBC chief cricket correspondent in 2024 |
| PUPPETMASTER | The one pulling the strings in 19 down and 25 across (6-6) |
| ARCHIMEDES | Scientist was correspondent in a matter of law |
| AGREEING | Correspondent in harmony (8) |
| ODELL | Nancy, who was a correspondent in both "Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight" |
| PENFRIEND | Correspondent in prison, day before death |
| PENPAL | Correspondent in the letter-writing era |
| TABLEMANNERS | The proper way to chew the fat perhaps in 19 down mostly with 8 down on bender (5,7) |
| EHRENBURG | Which Soviet war correspondent in World War II wrote the novel The Fall of Paris (1941-42) about the |
| MATTFREI | Former BBC correspondent in Washington and now Europe editor and presenter on Channel 4 News (4,4) |
| SCOOP | 1938 Evelyn Waugh novel, satirising foreign correspondents in Ethiopia (5) |
| CLOUDOFSMOKE | Magician's trick in 23 down has nothing to do with force coming from most of 1 across (5,2,5) |
| TITLE | Name that Scrabble player put down has T in it (5) |
| LETTEROPENER | A job for a snoop in 19 down for Frank Ward (6,6) |
| CLEANEDHOUSE | Assembled the dirt on most of those in 19 down and did The D'il a service perhaps (7,5) |
| SIFT | Screen is upside down, has loud music and is square (4) |
