| COURTOFLAW | Where there's talk of love and nothing to fault the room at the bar (5,2,3) |
| BRAINESCAN | Close examination of the 'Room at the Top' novelist? |
| DIET | Where there's talk abroad of restricting the intake? (4) |
| VACANT | Empty, like the rooms at The Grange B&B are sometimes in the Dales (6) |
| THROW | A roll of dice; the extent of vertical shift in a geological fault; the distance moved by an instrument's pointer; or, a decorative cover for a bed/chair (5) |
| DEFECTED | Fault the journalist who went over to the other side (8) |
| ORATE | Talk of love rat with energy (5) |
| SINCERE | Fault the church? Its teaching is straightforward |
| SALESPITCH | Beer ends up being discovered in school, and there's talk of flogging |
| HEXAHEDRON | A figure to bewitch, one hard to fault |
| TEASERVICE | Fragile thing, problem leading to fault (3,7) |
| PERPETRATE | Commit Peter, who's crazy, when there's talk about him (10) |
| PSALTER | There's talk of someone preserving a book of holy songs (7) |
| ALLOW | It is everything and nothing to the West to grant it (5) |
| SOLAR | There's talk of the sun in Laos, right? (5) |
| SIAM | Yes! In Italy this morning there's talk of old Thailand (4) |
| PHOTOBOMB | Join picture at the last minute playing lead that's very popular and nothing to do with stage flop (5,4) |
| HOORAY | An expression one associates with Joy, Henry and Oscar and nothing to do with Raymond (6) |
| THEIRS | There's talk of other people's (6) |
| ALLOT | Assign everything and nothing to the table-top (5) |
