| ACTUARIES | A curate is naughty? We understand the risks (9) |
| RUSTICATE | Its curate is about to take up a country living (9) |
| UPTHEANTE | Increase the risks, having climbed the volcano from the back |
| AVALANCHE | Natural disaster; one of the risks of off-piste skiing and mountaineering (9) |
| ALICEBAND | Something for hair: a thing unwanted there, prohibited, we understand |
| KILOJOULE | Quantity of work to do in unfinished old stone, we understand? |
| COMETRUE | The writer embraced by reformed curate is fulfilled (4,4) |
| ACTUSREI | Curate is curiously the real start of crime |
| SPANIEL | A gundog on a plane is naughty (7) |
| SLAPONTHEWRIST | Naughty, naughty ? it should be on the face! (4,2,3,5) |
| BAIT | Tease in a way that's a bit naughty? (4) |
| EVACUATE | A curate loses heart after back half of nave is empty (8) |
| BACCALAUREATE | Cable a curate, distraught about a test result |
| BUREAUCRAT | Administrator may rub a curate the wrong way (10) |
| IRONING | The risks people take involving the press (7,7) |
| EXTREME | The risks people take involving the press (7,7) |
| EGG | "A curate's ___" is good in parts. (3) |
| CENTAUR | Curate is flustered about Northern mythological creature (7) |
| IMMESH | He is naughty nabbing two maidens put in a trap |
| ACTSUP | Is naughty, forcing the cat to drink (4,2) |