| Clues | Answers |
| – | DASH |
| Boggy | MARSHY |
| Bury | INTER |
| Cheers! | THANKYOU |
| Degenerate rapidly | GODOWNTHEPAN |
| Dobson, Ekberg or Roddick | ANITA |
| Electrical power unit | WATT |
| First thing? | COCKCROW |
| Gas, O | OXYGEN |
| Hercule Poirot’s homeland | BELGIUM |
| Like a Venetian blind? | SLATTED |
| London rail terminus | EUSTON |
| Poem for the young | NURSERYRHYME |
| Press | IRON |
| Professorial position? | CHAIR |
| Ring thrown in a game to land on or near an upright peg | QUOIT |
| Run away as fast as possible | FLEE |
| San Francisco prison, once holding a Birdman? | ALCATRAZ |
| Straddle (the No 1 horse?) | BESTRIDE |
| Struggle | COMBAT |
| Study of alien aviation? | UFOLOGY |
| Type that slopes | ITALICS |
| Use of intentionally vague language | EQUIVOCATION |
| Very dirty fighting? | MUDWRESTLING |
