| Clues | Answers |
| A long time | AGES |
| Animal fat | SUET |
| Be entitled to | MERIT |
| Begin (to play music?) | STRIKEUP |
| Contaminated | UNCLEAN |
| Crested parrot, often kept as a cage bird | COCKATOO |
| Divine | INTUIT |
| Go-getting | ENTERPRISING |
| Intervene rudely | BARGEIN |
| Item of cutlery __ Norse despots (anag) | DESSERTSPOON |
| Long thin strip | RIBBON |
| Middle Eastern marketplace (sounds odd!) | BAZAAR |
| Military doctor or chaplain? | NONCOMBATANT |
| Not fake | ECHT |
| Part of a golf course | GREEN |
| Person not willing or able to change | DINOSAUR |
| Person one doesn’t know well | ACQUAINTANCE |
| Public | OVERT |
| Residential district on the outskirts of a city | SUBURB |
| Seventh heaven? | NIRVANA |
| Supported by | UPON |
| Take advantage (of) | EXPLOIT |
| Thicket | COPSE |
| Worldly | TEMPORAL |
