| OPERASTAR | A porter shuffled around like a great performer (5,4) |
| SEWERPIPE | Sweeper shuffled around one quiet waste disposal unit (5,4) |
| EDINBURGH | Hired gun shuffled around British city (9) |
| PROUSTIAN | Like a great stylist Puritans love madly (9) |
| NONPROFIT | New academic into playing around, like a charity (3-6) |
| ASTRONAUT | See Satan tour around like a distant traveller (9) |
| MAESTRO | Most are capable of becoming a great performer (7) |
| INEBRIATE | At the last pub I went to in Arne, I had three beers and six spirits - I was staggering around like a drunkard! (9) |
| OLD | Like a great-great-great-grandma |
| CENOTAPH | One chap shuffled around back of Great War memorial (8) |
| STELLAR | Way listener catches lines like great performer? |
| SITAR | Great performer may carry one, being a music-maker |
| SITE | Sounds like 'a great deal'and it means 'a lot' (4) |
| EMPEROR | Rome shuffled around for every ruler (7) |
| WIDELY | In broad terms, we idly shuffled around (6) |
| TIME | Lethal mite shuffled around night and day (3,3,4) |
| ALLTHE | Lethal mite shuffled around night and day (3,3,4) |
| CLIPON | Colin shuffled around page describing some earrings? (4,2) |
| TEMPORAL | Passing patrol shuffled around me on the way back (8) |
| MARITAL | Wedded maiden, next to altar, shuffled around one (7) |