| Clues | Answers |
| Ability to read story filled with smut, ultimately somewhat indecorous | LITERACY |
| Audio equipment offering choice of call, character phoning home | HEADSET |
| Author in front standing to pen new book | NABOKOV |
| Bone buried in barrow at the point of death | MORIBUND |
| Brass bar as plunger? | NECKLINE |
| Cash fine | STERLING |
| Clear butter quantity probed by all fingers and thumbs, say? | PATENT |
| Current crossed by lads aboard craft — lighter? | ARSONIST |
| Cut off, one thus gone | ISOLATE |
| Drink: good inn can do it on the rocks | GINANDTONIC |
| Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water | ONAGERS |
| Fashionable second course | MODISH |
| Fights during preliminary race, most serious | HEAVIEST |
| Footwear on pirate | BOOTLEG |
| German writer beginning on scarier, terrifying tale | SCHILLER |
| Keats’ almost sensational feeling about a subject of one of his odes | NIGHTINGALE |
| Red little mark, fancifully? | SCARLET |
| Setter messed up further attempt at passing | RETEST |
| Shabby material covering plain silk | TABARET |
| Shark, teeth like efficient razors, all initially going after fish with tail ripped off | HUSTLER |
| Shift first of ice blocking dogsled on the move | DISLODGE |
| Soldier on manoeuvres nearing the welcoming capital in Havana | HANGINTHERE |
| Statesman’s concern with extra weight carried? | CORPORATION |
| Stuck in branches, treetop close, perhaps? | STREET |
| Tool is grabbed by team when water cut off | CHISEL |
| Use force to get a compliment | PRAISE |
| Wait in back of limo, opening some American wine? | LOITER |
| Wrapped in material, case of Soave shut up again | RESEAL |
