| Clues | Answers |
| 15 spiking a Spanish red? That’s the principle | TENET |
| Cheese as seconds consumed in old club | BRASSIE |
| Chicken and egg in roll? | ROOSTER |
| Conservationists in state bound to be heard | NATIONALTRUST |
| Died in South American country once placed in ambush | PERDU |
| Fit ace rugby forwards carrying ball | APROPOS |
| For pot, go to pot? | SINK |
| Girl who’s promised cake? | BROWNIE |
| Headless chicken or crow | RAVEN |
| Initially obstructive wife to enable young head-turner | OWLET |
| Island man not completely absorbed in Sanskrit works | SUMATRA |
| Leaving starter, insect dives into dish that’s smoked | PANATELLA |
| Length adding to value in clawed animal | RATEL |
| Lust, vice and crime essentially written about in old law book | LEVITICUS |
| Oil producer has girl ferrying river sprite around | LEMONGRASS |
| Old school graduates change trousers | ALMAMATER |
| One should occupy immovable property in fact | REALITY |
| Panda car crashing blocks route taken by police | BEARCAT |
| Policy statement complicated by means of it? | MANIFESTO |
| Polish trick to get across international boundary | RUBICON |
| Reluctant auctioneer’s eighth item? | LOTH |
| Republican bundled into taxi that moves sideways | CRAB |
| Say Van Gogh’s content with chronicle being scandalous? | INCENDIARY |
| See time in Rome spoiled by Scots rozzers | METROPOLIS |
| Space probes face constant thundering in explosive aftermath | MUSHROOMCLOUD |
| Those last in triremes at sea may remain behind | STAY |
| Trader being in no hurry to plug pink publication? | FLORIST |
| Valediction cut short for Athenian statesman | SOLON |
| Wearing nothing fantastic asset round north ocean region | BARENTSSEA |
| Yes! Cats can produce bliss! | ECSTASY |
