| Clues | Answers |
| Almost everything eaten by sea creature’s foul! | SQUALID |
| Brace for party leader broadcast | PAIR |
| Carpeting tripped tot heading off toddling inside | TALKINGTO |
| Church gathering incorporated piece of cake | CINCH |
| Clubs worker’s sacked, caught breaking bottle opener | CORKSCREW |
| Day before American artist’s retrospective, it’s blocked | SNOOKERED |
| Detective managed to retire without getting to rock bottom | NADIR |
| Detectives in violent tussle seizing drug | SLEUTHS |
| Dislikes trapping poor mouse for co-residents | HOUSEMATES |
| Endure, long after date that’s absolutely final | LASTDITCH |
| Falsely superior large loaf has seeds occasionally | BIGHEADED |
| Film star rocks party, wearing nothing | SCREENIDOL |
| Hang around with dopehead’s mate | DALLY |
| Indulged by wearing uniforms I’d later bother keeping | LUXURIATED |
| Large number of British having trouble at home with nothing coming in | BILLION |
| Let’s go travelling, tour’s beginning on your bike | GETLOST |
| Letter from Greece is first of hundreds in Tate collection | THETA |
| Most desolate quarter has listed building | WILDEST |
| Mum’s quiet after son in car accident | SMASH |
| Natural gemstones not right for rings | PEALS |
| One with no hope of French act winning | DEFEATIST |
| Redo short haircut for swimmer | REDMULLET |
| Regular guest is host for debate | ARGUE |
| Rejected new street map that’s variable and eccentric | ZANY |
| So distant up to now | THUSFAR |
| Teach new skills online | RETRAIN |
| Team weakens, stuffed with southern hotel’s extra food | SIDEDISHES |
| Terrible fellow you reportedly left after a week | AWFUL |
| The lift is out of order, being most dirty | FILTHIEST |
| Thin line moving between English and American style | ELAN |
| Time opponent’s taken over me is not significant | TRIVIAL |
| Wally’s quick rejoinder partly backfired | JERK |
