| GENEALOGY | A leggy one deciphered tree study? |
| MESH | From "fern, grass, herb", word for a ground-cumbering wild plant such as a creeping buttercup, daisy, dandelion, fat hen, mind-your-own-business or nettle; or, a leggy inferior horse (4) |
| TIBIA | A leggy bit of skeleton, a bit wrong to include one (5) |
| CALF | A bit of a leggy young animal (4) |
| CENTIPEDE | Leggy one |
| HIBISCUS | Such upset over a leggy bird from the garden centre - a relative of the Mallow Family (8) |
| IBIS | Two-thirds of alibis produced by a leggy, flighty type (4) |
| MAASTRICHT | A leggy bird heading off into dull city abroad (10) |
| GIVETHEGLADEYE | A leggy vet I heed, oddly, and ogle? |
| ELEVEN | A leggy lot of players |
| STILT | A leggy bird |
| STAKED | Like a leggy plant, maybe |
| HERON | A leggy bird would never put him off! (5) |
| GARGOYLE | Grotesque individual or a leggy criminal |
| GREATPARIS | In 1811 Napoleon and his officers started using used this code, which was a great improvement on a previous code, which had been deciphered by Major George Scovell. |
| BABINGTON | When Mary, Queen of Scots wanted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, she began exchanging messages with her co-conspirator that used a mixture of codes and ciphers known as a nomenclator. The deciphered |
| ALEXANDRINES | Bits of verse a senior don "deciphered", cut and left over |
| LIPREADER | Elder pair deciphered one who discerns speech by sight (3-6) |
| READABLE | Easily deciphered a rebel puzzling about promotion (8) |
| EUCALYPTS | Clue deciphered about a central cluster of Egyptian trees (9) |
