| STEWARDS | Possibly an official enquiry from them, as a way to break awkward situations (8) |
| MEANSTEST | Sent mates round for an official enquiry (5,4) |
| UPSTAGE | Divert attention from them as pugs eat messily |
| DISCHARGE | Release damaging information showing corruption hampering a routine garda enquiry from the top |
| CASTLING | A way to break hold in chess move |
| ARMRESTS | You can lie about them as a judge from another time relaxes (8) |
| SQUAMOUS | With scales, the first of them as a tailless 12 (8) |
| GUARDIAN | A drug bust by a chap, possibly an angel (8) |
| FUSSPOTS | Particular people in awkward situations after following us (8) |
| CORONERS | Public officials love getting into awkward situations |
| DETHRONE | One way to break the rule! (8) |
| ADJUTANT | Notice project given to soldier, possibly an officer (8) |
| LOOPHOLE | Means of evading a rule in pool, possibly - an unpleasant place |
| YOSEMITE | Face of young love by possibly an Israeli park (8) |
| ENORMITY | Minor, yet possibly an atrocious crime (8) |
| URBANITE | In Beirut, possibly an inhabitant there? (8) |
| TUNGUSKA | Siberian area where Earth's largest impact event in recorded history, possibly an asteroid explosion, took place in 1908 (8) |
| ACIDRAIN | Something consuming resources in Jersey, possibly an environmental problem (4,4) |
| SMOOTHER | Possibly an iron ring incorporated in southern dam |
| PARTICLE | Phosphorus, possibly an atom? |
