| AKEY | "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ___": Churchill |
| RUSSIA | "___ is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma": Winston Churchill (6) |
| ENIGMA | "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an ____." (Churchill) |
| INSIGNIA | Perhaps there is gain in badges (8) |
| TEMERITY | Yet, perhaps, there is virtue in boldness (8) |
| USSR | "... riddle wrapped in a mystery" |
| AN | "A riddle wrapped in ___ enigma" (2) |
| VANITY | Delivery vehicle heading out of Leeds, perhaps: there's nothing in it |
| MIDDLEGROUND | Between Hogan and Cusack perhaps there's a compromise to be found (6,6) |
| ARETE | Does French train guard order you to stop? Perhaps there's a ridge ahead (5) |
| RIDDLE | A dark or puzzling utterance or question, such as that of the Sphinx; an enigma; or, a coarse-meshed sieve (6) |
| SMACK | Out fishing, perhaps, there can be quite a blow (5) |
| SIEVE | Yes, woman is a riddle (5) |
| CHARADE | Cleaner getting promotion ahead of Earl is a riddle (7) |
| MEATPIE | Pasty perhaps - there's me about to consume an irrational amount |
| HOTWATER | In the bottle, perhaps, there's trouble! |
| ONENESS | Perhaps there's no sense in unity (7) |
| SANMARINO | Roman is an enigma in Apennine country (3,6) |
| ELECTATUCANIS | Verba bene ____ ____ ____: it's well chosen words you are singing - but perhaps to another tune |
| SMELLTEST | Quick sniff of a just-expired (but perhaps still good) gallon of milk, maybe |
