| FREDERICK | Sir ___ Ogilvie, John Reith's successor as director-general of the BBC (9) |
| NEWSNIGHT | Current affairs programme that caused the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC |
| REITH | Scottish broadcasting executive who was employed as director general of the newly formed BBC in 1927 (5) |
| RIMINGTON | Stella ?, Director General of the Security Service from 1992-96 |
| ORGANISER | Or resign a role as director (9) |
| GOINSOUTH | Jack Nicholson's second film as director (1978) (4,5) |
| GREGDYKE | Director-General of the BBC 2000-04 and chairman of the Football Association 2013-16 (4,4) |
| BIRT | John ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1992-2000 (4) |
| DYKE | Greg ___, Director-General of the BBC who resigned in 2004 (4) |
| OGILVIE | Frederick ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1938-42 (7) |
| MILNE | Alasdair ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1982-87 (5) |
| JOHN | Scot who was first Director-general of the BBC, in 1927 (4,5) |
| ALASDAIR | -- Milne, Director-General of the BBC between 1982 and 1987 (8) |
| GREENE | Hugh ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1960-69 |
| TIMDAVIE | Director-General of the BBC appointed in 2020 (3,5) |
| GREG | ___ Dyke, former director-general of the BBC (4) |
| DIGBYJONES | Director general of the CBI from 2000 to 2006 who then sat in the House of Lords as a non-aligned crossbencher until 2020 (5,5) |
| OKONJO | The new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (5,6-6) |
| IWEALA | The new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (5,6-6) |
| NGOZI | The new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (5,6-6) |
