| IDLEBOAST | A burst of hot air to disable works? (4,5) |
| IDLE | To the audience, celebrity craft contains small bursts of hot air (4,6) |
| NOISES | To the audience, celebrity craft contains small bursts of hot air (4,6) |
| RHETORIC | Hot air to richer assemblies (8) |
| INDIAN | ___ summer, late burst of hot weather (6) |
| GUST | A blast of wind; a rush of smoke; a burst of passion; relish or zest; or, the sense or pleasure of tasting (4) |
| CLAP | Sound of a burst of thunder, two hands colliding, a wingbeat or the whack of a film slate; or, a jovial pat (4) |
| FLASH | Pre-drawn tattoo design; a burst of light or a rush of water; or, a space hero immortalised in a single by Queen (5) |
| FLURRY | A blast or gust; a fluttering mass of ideas, leaves, snowflakes or other things; a burst of activity, agitation or excitement; or, a brief commotion (6) |
| RAINCLOUD | A nimbostratus or nimbus providing a burst of drizzle, deluge of mizzle, shower of sleet or dense dark foreboding pluvial sheet (4-5) |
| PUFF | An inflated cream-filled pastry; a burst of breath or wind; a pad for powdering one's face; or, a review (4) |
| OOH | Reaction to a burst of fireworks |
| SPURT | Little time after incentive to put on a burst of speed |
| RHAPSODY | Perhaps Odysseus suppressed a burst of ecstasy (8) |
| FLEDGELING | Immature type finds something outstanding in a burst of hedonism (10) |
| SALVO | A burst of gunfire in rapid succession (5) |
| TURNOFSPEED | A burst of velocity |
| WIND | Second ___ , a burst of renewed energy or enthusiasm (4) |
| PEAL | A burst of noise (4) |
| RAFALE | A burst of artillery fire, literally "gust" in French (6) |