| CHARLESOSGOOD | "Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning" author |
| CAROLINA | "If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day; I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say; Nothing could be finer than to be in ... in the morning" |
| SIEVE | What could be finer than a riddle? (5) |
| FINER | "Nothing could be ___ than to be in Carolina in the..." |
| SUEZ | Shorthand for a political and military crisis that engulfed the Eden government in 1956 (4) |
| UNICEF | Org. established in response to the refugee crisis that followed the Second World War |
| HALFALOAF | What's reduced pain for the French? Nothing could be worse! (4,1,4) |
| LIBRETTO | Nothing could be brittle first in words of opera (8) |
| DINGO | No minor in the dining room, just a dog (5) |
| FLASHPOINT | Moment of crisis that takes its name from the lowest temperature at which a flammable liquid can mix |
| SCHOOL | Nothing could be farthest from the front half after hearing glass goes cool making lost masterpiece of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7,6,2,3) |
| GLASGOW | Nothing could be farthest from the front half after hearing glass goes cool making lost masterpiece of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7,6,2,3) |
| OFART | Nothing could be farthest from the front half after hearing glass goes cool making lost masterpiece of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7,6,2,3) |
| NIL | Nothing could be found in Manila (3) |
| FOOLHARDIER | Hard life, or nothing could be more death-defying (11) |
| EASIEST | See it as an anagram - nothing could be simpler (7) |
| WARD | Minor in the charge of a guardian (4) |
| INFER | What could be finer to deduce? |
| LINDISFARNE | Holy Island could be finer island |
| HARTLEPOOL | Town near 16 ultimately minor in the Apollo shot (10) |
