| WASHINGUPLIQUID | Clue to make WAG punish cleaner (7-2,6) |
| BENEFITOFCLERGY | In the Middle Ages, a privilege that placed ordained ministers outside the jurisdiction of secular courts (7-2,6) |
| ECLOGUE | Battered ego? Clue to make a poem (7) |
| INKLING | Clue to make rum link with gin (7) |
| AROUND | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make se |
| DROPINS | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| ACROSS | Sort of clue to make one mad |
| NOUN | Invent cool clue to make one of a dozen here (10,4) |
| COLLECTIVE | Invent cool clue to make one of a dozen here (10,4) |
| GESTICULATE | Get it as clue to make energetic hand signs |
| ELUCIDATE | Somehow edit a clue to make things clear (9) |
| SUB | Prefix for the answers to starred clues, and word needed for those clues to make sense |
| TWO | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| IBEFOREE | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| WASHINGUP | Fairy, perhaps, raised just over half a ton of cash to support tree strangled by branch (7-2,6) |
| DOORMAT | Dorothy has to roam around to find shoe cleaner (7) |
| JANITOR | Jan and I went to the hill to get the cleaner (7) |
| FLANNEL | Sweet talk given to the cleaner (7) |
| SHAMPOO | Get away without a politician, to be cleaner (7) |
| SWEEPER | Society keener to get cleaner (7) |
