| Clues | Answers |
| Avoids responsibility and work | SLACKS |
| Barbirolli or Toscanini? | CONDUCTOR |
| Cause to feel indignation | PIQUE |
| Chopper | CLEAVER |
| Company that transports commercial packages from A to B | COURIER |
| Crab’s claw, say | PINCER |
| Curio | RARITY |
| Decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair | TOPKNOT |
| Deliberate fabrication | LYING |
| Dirty and powdery | DUSTY |
| Fanciful ornamentation in art and architecture originating in 18th-century France | ROCOCO |
| Habituate | INURE |
| In a penetrating way | KEENLY |
| In New Zealand? | DOWNUNDER |
| Inspection by a trained accountant | AUDIT |
| Jocular | WAGGISH |
| Meat substitute | QUORN |
| North Atlantic island | ICELAND |
| Penny-pinching | STINGY |
| Pre-1989 name for the capital of Myanmar | RANGOON |
| Pungent fleshy edible root | RADISH |
| Simmer with anger | SEETHE |
| Spruce up | SMARTEN |
| Underground burial chamber | CRYPT |
| Viral disease | COVID |
| Yellow sauce served on hot desserts | CUSTARD |
