| IMPOSE | 3 current poems needing translation (6) |
| FEMALE | Like three current Cabinet members |
| UNIVERSE | Everything in French, one current poem |
| DISAVOW | Deny Ovid was needing translation |
| TUITION | Lessons given to Inuit needing translation |
| EGGHEAD | Expert had say twice, needing translation |
| DISLOCATE | Put out by dialect, so needing translation |
| MARTIANS | Aliens from main star needing translation (8) |
| INMATES | Lags behind for service, matins needing translation (7) |
| ABRAHAMIC | Druze say with Aramaic: case of both needing translation (9) |
| SPANIARD | European coming from Paris and needing translation |
| NOMENCLATURE | Terminology unclear to men needing translation (12) |
| EXCHANGESTUDENT | Pupil from overseas scanned huge text needing translation (8,7) |
| SOPHISM | His poems, not English, needing translation? That's a poor argument |
| BEHOLD | Translation of the Latin phrase Ecce homo (6,3,3) |
| THEMAN | Translation of the Latin phrase Ecce homo (6,3,3) |
| ANDSON | Dickens novel by no means odd in translation (3,3) |
| REDHOT | "Scorcher of a day," in other translation (3-3) |
| YUMCHA | With its literal translation "drinking tea", what is the southern Chinese equivalent to brunch? (3,3) |
| UNSEEN | Translation of a French drama excerpt for the radio (6) |
