| HORNSWOGGLED | "I bought a trumpet, but I was..." |
| CORNET | Brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider (6) |
| DOUBLECROSSED | "I thought I bought a book of puzzles, but I was..." |
| RIPPEDOFF | "I bought a shredder, but I was..." |
| PUN | "I bought a boat because it was for sail," e.g. |
| RUFFLE | You know how I bought a dress with a ___ on it? ... |
| CROISSANT | "Today at the bookstore I bought a ___..." |
| CARIBOU | In Redcar I bought a deer (7) |
| TAKENFORARIDE | "I bought the car, but I was..." |
| BRIANCLOUGH | Former football manager who claimed "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" |
| ALIBI | I was seen in Bali? But I was elsewhere and that's a fact! (5) |
| DUNWEAR | I was warned about my second husband, but I was head-over-heels and moved into his place near Bridgwater (7) |
| GLASGOW | I thought I had touched down in Sin City (2-4), but I was actually in the Scottish city_ |
| WASNO | "My, my, my, Delilah; Why, why, why Delilah? I could see, that girl ... good for me; But I was lost like a slave that no man could free" (3,2) |
| BORNINCHAINS | Song from leonard cohen's 2014 'Popular Problems' album that goes "but I was taken out of egypt / I |
| NEWTO | Have no knowledge of - but I was aware also, I said ... (3,2) |
| DEMEAN | A church dignitary took me in, but I was still cast down (6) |
| PARAVI | I planned, I bought, I prepared |
| SYMPATHISED | My depth is as may be, but I was feeling for another (11) |
| ACOLT | "...a year later I bought ___ 45" (Steve Earle line) |
