The Guardian go with an anagram to begin their cryptic crossword today — can you spot it?
The indicator word here is ‘foreign’, and we can see that there are eight letters in ‘minister’.
We need a word of that length for the answer. So, minister when ‘foreign’ (ie, rearranged) becomes INTERIMS (or another term for transition periods).
See how you get on with the rest of the clues set by Picaroon and use our How to Solve guide if you need a hand.