| Clues | Answers |
| Accomplished lines about a comprehensive | OVERALL |
| America’s holding of heaven-bound heavenly objects | UFOS |
| Anniversary bash outside eastern entrance out of control | TERCENTENARY |
| Brother gets over Dutch scam | FRAUD |
| Career that’s stimulating | SPEED |
| Choked elongated fish perished | GARROTTED |
| Detailed description of small muscle | SPEC |
| Drink that in Spanish means ‘island’ | MARTINIQUE |
| Drumming sound coming from grass on a plot | RATAPLAN |
| European football team abroad clear end by half-time | anderlecht |
| Fair’s awkward situation: no parking | LIGHT |
| Feel dizzy taking diamonds, say, for beachwear | SWIMSUIT |
| Go grey, perhaps, after near death | ENERGY |
| Guardian articles on Republican political group that heralds a storm? | WEATHERFRONT |
| Implacable insensitive heartless sexual partner | DEADLY |
| Loss, if York houses become fixed | OSSIFY |
| Matches squeal when lit | EQUALS |
| Newspaper ‘X’? | TIMES |
| Ostentatious as kids in a puddle? | SPLASHY |
| Performed turn on ends of rickety stool, being two-toed | DIDACTYL |
| Settled on entering working party | SQUARED |
| Significant base in Gulf conflict | MEANINGFUL |
| Sought to circulate around river’s low points | TROUGHS |
| State service | MASS |
| Sticks up for superior | SMUG |
| Symbolic 5 includes guitar riff | FIGURATIVE |
| Umlaut scrawled over man’s name; accept it or else! | ULTIMATUM |
| US state split by ex-monarch’s notary | SCRIVENER |
| Versace, not busy, dropping round to see writer | CERVANTES |
| Wrong time and time again — love rather strained | FALSETTO |
