| PEEPHOLES | Eyes close to them? Hope sleep's improved (9) |
| ONTHEBLINK | Not working just as eyes close for a moment (2,3,5) |
| OMAR | "They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she's equal to them. But I say to them, 'How else did you expect me to show up?'" She was electe |
| CANOFWORMS | Fisherman holds on to them presumably to open up - there's more trouble to follow (3,2,5) |
| TERMS | Come to them to settle dispute as to Hilary and Lent (5) |
| BUTT | Yet "top" to THEM is "bottom" to US |
| NOSES | Sons point to them before blowing them (5) |
| SENSES | It's sometimes necessary to come to them |
| FACTS | It's usually good to stick to them |
| ABBOT | What "is brothers "ave on is said to make one superior to them (5) |
| TRACKMEETS | Competitors jump hurdles to get to them: 2 wds. |
| INCORRIGIBLE | "Mankind are an ____ race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong [...] are worse than indifferent to them" (William Hazlitt) |
| HEREDITY | They ride out to get what's coming to them |
| TEDDYSHERINGHAM | Footballer whose partnership with Alan Shearer led to them being referred to as The SAS |
| DEBS | It's bad to point to them as experts (4) |
| FLOWERVASES | Stalks the first to be introduced to them? (6,5) |
| EXTERMINATE | Applying a herbicide to weeds will effectively do this to them - rather like a Dalek! (11) |
| FORTUNETELLER | Here's a letter for the French at the UN - says what's going to happen to them! (7,6) |
| BASICS | It's sometimes good to get back to them |
| SUMMINGUP | A judge's review of the evidence given to the jury, prior to them retiring (7-2) |
