| RIVERSOFAMERICA | A sequence of these snakes between two of the grid's corners, traveling horizontally and vertically |
| ROOK | Chess piece that moves horizontally and vertically |
| WEAKNESSES | Slithering snakes between you and I, and everything suddenly starts to show our follies (10) |
| VASSAL | Two snakes between Virginia and Alabama |
| MAMBAS | Mum needs doctor when these snakes bite dangerously |
| ADDERS | These snakes seem to be unable to multiply. (6) |
| LEVEL | Horizontal - and vertically! (5) |
| MEZZANINE | *Low-ceilinged story between two of the main floors of a building |
| CHET | Shameless acting son of Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of the celebrity in the centre of the grid Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson (4) |
| VAGRANT | Idle wanderer (HOW TO PLAY: The last names of 14 famous Civil War generals are hidden in the Across answers, seven in the North part of the grid and seven in the South. The catch is that nine of them |
| SEMIFINAL | Meeting between two of the last four still in a knockout competition (4-5) |
| WESSEX | She has been on Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of the celebrity in the centre of the grid a Caribbean tour with her husband Prince Edward (6,6) |
| KIMBER | The first Great British Rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to spell out the name of the celebrity in the centre of the grid Bake-Off winner, Edd _ (6) |
| GOALPOST | Kicking a ball between two of these gives a score (7) |
| FILLEVERYCIRCLE | Solvers must ___ in the grids to determine the grids' proper order |
| IDIOTIC | Ultimately void between two of the ears? |
| BETTEROFFAL | Preference between two of the chef's entrails dishes? |
| THECONTIGUOUSUS | Where the grid's circled letters denote the NW, NE, SW, SE and centermost locations |
| SPIN | With the circled word in the grids center, what each circled word is? |
| HAWAIIAN | The -- guitar is held horizontally and played with a metal bar (8) |
