| Clues | Answers |
| Advance made more attractive when little interest is shown? | MORTGAGE |
| Battle supplies hidden by retreating commander | AMMO |
| Bill steals, according to hearsay, legendary creature | PHOENIX |
| Choppy brine covers new motorway and one group of fens | RENMINBI |
| Clarifies what Slimmer of the Week’s previous reading shows? | EXPOUNDS |
| Come before quiet official, almost give up | PRECEDE |
| Critical trap Gerald heartlessly produces | GINGERY |
| Cycling soldiers cut off fools in a group | ENMASSE |
| Detested sailor scraped around bishop | ABHORRED |
| Disperse protest, anger spreading around island | DEMOBILISE |
| Dry, heated up and ultimately arid | DEHYDRATED |
| Expression of dismay’s no good for women’s power | STRENGTH |
| Force tense after row | DINT |
| Frequently sanctimonious about universal right | HOURLY |
| Game ended early after Border’s returning smears | SMIRCHES |
| Hero, at first hot, abject in ordering assassination | HATCHETJOB |
| Home, about to be supplanted by underworld in contention | DISSIDENCE |
| Iliad rewritten to include western festival | DIWALI |
| Is old country singer in area of rock that’s folded? | ISOCLINE |
| Princes’ mother keeps housing prince | MAHARAJAS |
| Quiet drink, boozer’s fourth, produces sentimental singing | SHMALTZ |
| Raises a stink, abandoning tango with police officer | ASCENDS |
| Sadly, a journalist wrote this old piece | OBIT |
| Satisfied tool’s procedures | METHODS |
| Speaker for a Tory’s selection | ORATOR |
| Subdues child one’s taken on | STEPSON |
| Tea, bit of butter all but oblige bread | CHAPATTI |
| Type of horn found in Timbuktu backwater | TUBA |
| Vices discovered, confine in cooler | ICEBOX |
| Working soldier sent back driver with American airhead | IGNORAMUS |
