| BRIGHTBLUE | A shade better than most in intellect and sport, is he? (6,4) |
| PLUM | A shade better than the others (4) |
| SUPERIORIOWA | This city of '132' people is better than most in the Hawkeye State |
| EXCEL | Do better than most in complex Celtic language (5) |
| ASTONISHED | Bowled over in Edgbaston, is he? Definitely! (10) |
| CHRISSMITH | Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997-2001 |
| BASKETBALL | Demand wager outside - fun and sport (10) |
| CASSIO | In 1.1, Iago talks about his being jealous of this person for becoming Othello's lieutenant. He is described as a "great mathematician" and a "Florentine." Who is he? |
| NORMAL | A girl with a figure no better than most (6) |
| STANDARD | And in darts playing, no better than most (8) |
| PILOT | Person nearer to heaven than most in religious group? |
| CONNOISSEURS | Judges in matters of taste hear no better than most (12) |
| OUTDO | Play better than most characters in the Open? (5) |
| INTUITION | "One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the - with its symbolic thinking." Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Wat |
| BRAIN | Intellect, and how to knock it out of one? (5) |
| OPENMIND | Love writer's intellect and unprejudiced way of thinking (4,4) |
| CAPITAL | Rome, for instance, do better than most of Italy (7) |
| FATCAT | Successful mouse-catcher presumably does the business better than most (3,3) |
| EXCEED | Do better than most of Spain cross with church writer? (6) |
| PEASANT | Who is King Wenceslas's yonder worker? Who is he? He's poor Nate's Pa (7) |
