| MISFIT | A social inadequate starts to feel inept in film (6) |
| SCANT | Inadequate start to sheer hypocrisy (5) |
| SADDO | Social inadequate, weird when upset? |
| GAUCHE | A huge hapless chap, awfully inept in company |
| FROLIC | Starts to feel relied on, like in country caper (6) |
| FRIDGE | Start to feel raised part of a surface in kitchen feature (6) |
| ALFRED | King Lear starts to feel desperate, torn apart (6) |
| FRANCE | Starts to feel regret after needlessly cutting European neighbours (6) |
| FLYING | Starts to feel sick about telling stories most can adapt old 19Ac (6,8) |
| FIANCE | Starts to feel insecure and nervously calls editor... he's engaged (6) |
| NINETY | Where a batsman might start to feel nervous (6) |
| PACIFY | Calm, I start to feel, during fast |
| FRIGID | Start to feel stiff and cold |
| PLENIPOTENTIARY | Inept in reply to a roving ambassador (15) |
| FUJI | Starts to feel unsettled, judging it to be a mountain |
| HESITATION | Wavering of ambassador initially inept in post |
| EXTRADITE | Deport former partner extremely inept in business (9) |
| SCOTSMAN | Starts to feel sick about telling stories most can adapt old 19Ac (6,8) |
| FELT | Starts to feel erotic, likes to be touched (4) |
| FALLOCH | Starts to feel a little Awe, perhaps, having left Stirlingshire waterfall (7) |
