| CARADOC | -- Evans, author of the novels 'Nothing to Pay' and 'Wasps' (7) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, author of books including The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Scenes of Clerical Life collection of three stories (5) |
| DIEHARD | Which film starring Bruce Willis was based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever? (3,4) |
| GEORGEELIOT | Mary Ann Evans, author (6,5) |
| CARPARK | Where vehicles go to pay and play? ... (7) |
| CURIOUS | A villain promises to pay - and with a great deal of interest! |
| STOWAGE | Good man has nothing to pay for packing (7) |
| TRIBUTE | It costs nothing to pay this (7) |
| INSECTS | Scent is distributed by bees and wasps, for instance (7) |
| STIPEND | The minister's pay and how he'll spend it (7) |
| STINGER | Brandy cocktail, antispeeding device & wasp? (7) |
| QUARTERDAY | A time to pay and a time to be lenient? (7,3) |
| PRAYER | To ask the lord to pay and do wrong (6) |
| SETTLES | Pays and stays (7) |
| RESETTLE | About to pay and move to another place (8) |
| CONFINED | Felon had to pay and was locked up (8) |
| FREE | There's nothing to pay to let one go (4) |
| FREEWHEELED | Nothing to pay: marchers changed direction, didn't pedal (4-7) |
| FREEANDEASY | With nothing to pay it's simple, too, to be so informal (4,3,4) |
| FREEOFCHARGE | There's nothing to pay with no case to answer (4,2,6) |