| CORRUPTION | A big UN word to describe what must do once the climate has run away from us and we have to survive. (10) |
| MITIGATION | A big UN word to describe what we have to do to stop the sky falling in, chicken lickin ... (10) |
| BURN | It's what charcoal briquettes do once the grill is all fired up |
| MOUTHFUL | Long word to describe what you shouldn't talk with! |
| VIDEOS | Films from US and Britain expected to divide Oscars (6) |
| ASUNDER | Apart from us and possibly 'is mate (7) |
| EGO | A diva might have a big 'un |
| GUINEABISSAU | Resolve a big UN issue surrounding a country in Africa (6-6) |
| MEDITERRANEAN | A ____ climate has hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters |
| RAINFALL | Feature of climate has artist getting home before autumn (8) |
| FRAGILE | Parlous state of climate has newspaper probing dossier (7) |
| OAR | Word that has swept and paddled its way through the centuries to describe what is essentially a rower's pulling power on the river; or, a pole with which to "stick in" or stir (3) |
| ENDURE | Dee's to run and we have to tolerate it (6) |
| ATOUCHOFCLASS | 1973 film for which Glenda Jackson won a Best Actress Oscar, and received a telegram from Eric Morecambe reading "Stick with us and we will get you another one" (1,5,2,5) |
| TSAR | "May God bless and keep the ___ ... far away from us!" (line from "Fiddler on the Roof") |
| DUSK | "There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at ___": Jean-Paul Sartre (4) |
| EXTRUDE | The little Texan gets rude and we have to force him out (7) |
| STABLESAW | "Don't close the barn door once the horse has run away," e.g.? |
| ER | Added to some verbs to describe what a person does or performs (specified action) |
| CZAR | "May God bless and keep the ___ far away from us!" ("Fiddler on the Roof" blessing) |
