| Clues | Answers |
| Abnormal tissue growth | TUMOUR |
| Arboreal African snake with a fatal bite | MAMBA |
| As are all the members of ABBA | SWEDES |
| Beneath | UNDER |
| Bogota (anag) | TOBAGO |
| Causing terror | DREAD |
| Crammed | JAMPACKED |
| Crikey! | CRUMBS |
| Currently inactive | DORMANT |
| Diver’s outfit | WETSUIT |
| English detective-story writer, d. 1957 | SAYERS |
| Forty winks | SIESTA |
| French Indian Ocean department | REUNION |
| Great pre-19th century European painter | OLDMASTER |
| Israeli communal settlement | KIBBUTZ |
| Italian toddler | BAMBINO |
| Message received and understood! | ROGER |
| Mythical sea creature | MERMAID |
| Nervous | JITTERY |
| Part of a poem | STANZA |
| Ravine | GORGE |
| School clothing? | UNIFORM |
| Seabird and bat excrement once widely used as a fertiliser | GUANO |
| Strip of pleated material used as a trim | FRILL |
| Suit | BEFIT |
| Type of rhododendron grown for its showy flowers of different colours | AZALEA |
