| ANIMATO | A variation for Tamino, in lively style (7) |
| THEMAGICFLUTE | Tamino, Papageno opera (3,5,5) |
| ALLEGRO | In quick and lively style (7) |
| BORODIN | Robin does pointless variation for a chemist-composer |
| PIZZAZZ | Foreign character buzzing after adopting a lively style |
| SAPPERS | Suppers are given little variation for men of low rank |
| ENIGMAS | Puzzles with Variations for WR 7005 composer (7) |
| OPERATE | A variation on Poe writings? A tear will be shed when they do that in the theatre (7) |
| CALDRON | Fraud includes gangster and medic making a variation on a big pot (7) |
| BETHLEM | A variation of the name of England's first hospital for people with mental illnesses, part of the hospital's presentday name (7) |
| RAREBIT | Dish with a variation called a golden buck |
| CORBEAU | Blackish green cube, or a variation of it (7) |
| OVERDID | Was too extravagant of Verdi to do a variation (7) |
| MUSHPOT | Circle's center, in a variation of duck, duck, goose |
| DIERAMA | Perennial aka angels fishing rods - admire a variation (7) |
| ISOTOPE | Is love poet developing a variation on something from the table? |
| BEAGLER | Play a Variation of Elgar - the Hunter ? |
| RAZOREDGE | Special grade having zero variation for a critical situation (5,4) |
| HIEROCRACY | Church rule eastern choir unorthodox, having a lively style |
| JIVE | Lively style of dance popular in the 1940s and 1950s (4) |
