| AFTERMOST | A fine expression (East German) "the closest to the rear" (9) |
| AFTERMATH | A fine expression at end of clash for fallout from the event (9) |
| FREDDYEMERCURY | Subject of a 2018 biopic who was the closest to the sun |
| QUITO | Second-highest capital city in the world after La Paz, and the closest to the equator (5) |
| PILFERAGE | Thieving large amount of money brought about fine expression of anger |
| NEAREST | The closest to hand are entering the nest (7) |
| FLEER | Mock fine expression of lust (5) |
| EGGPOWDER | Say doctor that hurts German's the wartime substitute for baker (3,6) |
| DIESELOIL | For Germans, the earth is charged by the Spanish for fuel (6,3) |
| SYPHILIS | What disease was called "the French disease" by the British and Germans, "the Neapolitan disease" by the French, "the Polish disease" by the Russians and "the German disease" by the Polish? (8) |
| NORTHRONA | Island 44 miles from Cape Wrath, uninhabited since 1844, the closest land to the Faroe Islands |
| RAZORBILL | North Atlantic colonial seabird which is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (9) |
| NEIGHBOUR | He's the closest, being hour away (9) |
| NEXTOFKIN | .... and being the closest, relatively speaking (4,2,3) |
| DIS | In German, the neuter word for 'the' (3) |
| EINER | In German, the feminine dative of the indefinite article (5) |
| ENDINGS | Aims to capture in German the last parts of books (7) |
| DERBY | German's the next to race (5) |
| WIDER | With individual, German the more open (5) |
| MEANDER | In Low German the word for "wind"? |
