| THIEVES | There's this girl in it who's light-fingered (7) |
| MAIDENOVER | You won't score with this girl in a superior position (6,4) |
| BUNNYHUG | This girl in nightclub giving all-round demonstration of affection during dance (5-3) |
| OLIVE | This girl's in love, as it happens (5) |
| PROSAIC | Dull photo with flowery girl in it |
| ORLANDO | Youngest son of Old Sir Rowland de Boys in Shakespeare's As You Like It, who marries Rosalind (7) |
| BURGLES | In Johannesburg, Lester is light-fingered (7) |
| TEALEAF | Light-fingered Londoner in Darjeeling? |
| SINEDIE | Do wrong drug and snuff it, who knows when? (4,3) |
| RADIANT | There's this ad about a train and how it's such a shining example (7) |
| EPIGRAM | There's this sarcastic saying about a pig and a mare (7) |
| AUSTERE | There's this severely simple tree in the USA |
| CLARA | Ms. Bow, the 'it girl' in "It" (1927) |
| BASALT | Rock club with girl in it |
| TOUCHSTONE | Fool in Shakespeare's play As You Like It who falls in love with a shepherdess called Audrey |
| AMBIT | This morning there's this piece in The Compass (5) |
| AUSTER | It's true! In South Australia there's this southerly blowing (6) |
| ROSALIND | Character in Shakespeare's As You Like It who disguises herself as Ganymede (8) |
| FOOLS | "Who can explain it, who can tell you why;... give you reasons, wise men never try," sang Perry Como in Some Enchanted Evening |
| JAQUES | Character in As You Like It who delivers the 'All the world's a stage' speech |
