| Clues | Answers |
| Agent in European capital backed Julian, say | EMPEROR |
| Beat seed | PULSE |
| Become aware of things smelt, heard but not seen | SENSE |
| Bird presented in last part of French chapter | FINCH |
| Booker? With prize ultimately secured, trim one’s sails | REEF |
| Coping partly with limited capital, just under fifteen pounds | CAPSTONE |
| Deity repeatedly upset another __ that’s very unusual | RARAAVIS |
| Denouement that’s heart-rending? Not half | ENDING |
| Don’t allow to leave with odd characters out of discretion | ICEIN |
| Encountered Oliver’s friend in London suburban area | METROLAND |
| Endless fortune I had put together, that’s clear | LUCID |
| Found pound and ounce, say, in abbreviated dictionary | LOCATED |
| Hungarian saint containing the blaze I mishandled | ELIZABETH |
| If pedant is confused about hard recipe initially, he seeks way to proceed | PATHFINDER |
| Imaginary character, one of the first two Wells wrote about | MANINTHE |
| Increase organised valet parking in large parts of East End | ELEVATE |
| It’s put in the kind of barns churches once found helpful | TITHE |
| King or president | ARTHUR |
| Large rodent, hard to handle, not keeping up like pig | PORCINE |
| Letters from London nearly delivered for poet | DONNE |
| Like the Chairman’s little work (or books in general, we hear) | RED |
| Love label linked with old wine-producing region | OTAGO |
| Novel form in old verse penned by Conservatives | CRIMESTORY |
| Old author I’d pronounced woke? | OPEN |
| One of six in charge of our land, one a so-called farmer | GEORGE |
| Part of bicycle that doesn’t make it to 24 across? | INNERTUBE |
| Part of painter’s work starts off collection of art treasures | COAT |
| Power of the mind seen in part of 24 across | PINNER |
| Restrained, cut line in second edition | SHACKLED |
| See 25 | EYED |
| See 7 | MOON |
| Source of inspiration and great power in the writer | MUSE |
| With repetition of first part, contrive changes to sentence again | RECONVICT |
