| PALMERSTON | Lord, last British prime minister to die in office in 1865 (10) |
| HARRISON | William Henry _, the first US president to die in office, in 1841 (8) |
| KIRK | The most recent New Zealand PM to die in office (4) |
| ALDER | Real problem concealing lord's last tree |
| GUSATKINSON | Surrey fast bowler who took 12 West Indies wickets on his Test debut for England at Lord's last month (3,8) |
| BLACKWATCH | Scottish regiment, the last British unit to leave Hong Kong in 1997 (5,5) |
| HEATHENDOM | Europhile PM to cease mantra in faithless regions (10) |
| WELLINGTON | PM to get the boot! (10) |
| POSTMERIDIEM | Late in the day for British prime minister to be so short (4,8) |
| ANDREWBONARLAW | The only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles (6,5,3) |
| GERRY | Second U.S. vice president to die in office |
| SPENCER | 9dn Only British Prime Minister to be assassinated (7,8) |
| PERCEVAL | Spencer ---, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated (8) |
| WINSTONCHURCHILL | The only British prime minister to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| CANNING | George _, British prime minister who died in office in 1827 (7) |
| FLODDEN | Battle fought in Northumberland in 1513 in which James IV of Scotland was the last British monarch to die in battle (7) |
| BLEEP | Warning British prime minister to retire |
| INDIRAGANDHI | Two-time prime minister of India assassinated in office in 1984 (6,6) |
| RED | -backed shrike, bird whose last British breeding stronghold was said to be in Norfolk in the 1990s before it made a return to a secret Dartmoor site in 2010 (3) |
| INSTAL | Set up in office in last resort (6) |
