| Clues | Answers |
| … a biscuit red head produced | GINGERNUT |
| Abandoned pipe not mine | OPENPIT |
| Alternative theatre is most indecent | EARTHIEST |
| Authoritative ruling from soccer body that wants active leaders | FATWA |
| Beat chap — it’s not the main issue | TANGENT |
| Become defensive when told to start eating … | DIGIN |
| Conviction for injecting double energy into high explosive | TENET |
| Country road ran randomly | ANDORRA |
| Criticise extremely idiotic hysteria | PANIC |
| Cutting head of weed off when growing | AXING |
| Division in band that’s getting older | GROWINGUP |
| Dog at sea enabled Darwin to develop his evolutionary theory | THEBEAGLE |
| Dried rose cooked as an addition to main course | SIDEORDER |
| Drop back to keep seat warm? | LAGBEHIND |
| Embittered expert judged to have stolen book | ACERBATED |
| Exercise expected to captivate eager teacher | PEDAGOGUE |
| Finished following fine trip | ALLOVER |
| Guide for riverside in Italy | POINTER |
| Historical centre of holy study | OLDEN |
| Irate chum suffering with stiff joints | RHEUMATIC |
| Nomads use trails central for these tribes people | MASAI |
| Occasionally stern solicitor dispatched | SENTOUT |
| Odds, oddly, may be this! | EVENS |
| Oxford museum compiled article on tree growth | ASHMOLEAN |
| Player needing second income source when promise broken | SEMIPRO |
| Popular oath can be impossible to say | INEFFABLE |
| Proper worker, a man indispensable to the boss | RIGHTHAND |
| Pursue game that’s hiding quietly | DOGGO |
| Small border plant | SEDGE |
| Specialist language used to describe advance in painting? | ARGOT |
| Upsetting part of sermon evoked rancour | VENOM |
| Win support for essential truth from small part of England | RUTLAND |
