| TIMBERWOLF | A beast or two going round deserted village with low frequency (6,4) |
| PEARLFISHERS | Opera has 20 with low frequency separated among the lost (5,7) |
| RARELY | Soldiers see about radio firstly with low frequency (6) |
| LORRY | A letter or two going by road (5) |
| DIKDIK | Small ruminant or two going west (3-3) |
| INFRASONIC | Low frequency of cairns in wild (10) |
| SLIMBRIDGE | Glos village with a nature reserve (10) |
| WALSINGHAM | Norfolk village with two shrines (10) |
| WILLOUGHBY | Lincolnshire village with one lake - and another beside (10) |
| ONEHOETOWN | Village with very little gardening equipment? |
| GOLDSMITH | Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village ; or, a worker in the precious metal known in Latin as aurum (9) |
| OUTLAW | A wild untamed beast; or, a bandit, desperado, exile, fugitive, pariah, Robin Hood or other banished brigand living beyond legal bounds (6) |
| CRESCENDO | Second race, with number two going badly as the roar goes up? |
| BOTHY | The two going together to hostel met at place to camp without a tent (5) |
| IMBER | Wood doesn't start in deserted village (5) |
| PAWS | Clawed padded feet of beasts; or, in a derogatory, facetious or informal sense, large hands or clumsy mitts (4) |
| STAMPEDE | Word for the wild flight of a panicked herd of trampling beasts or crowd of scrambling shoppers; or, a rodeo (8) |
| SASQUATCH | In Canadian folklore, a hairy beast or manlike monster said to leave huge footprints (9) |
| LIVERYCOMPANY | Two going after irritable City traders (6,7) |
| POMPEII | East Roman two going after stately display, victim to volcanic eruption (7) |
