| BUREAUCRAT | Administrator may rub a curate the wrong way (10) |
| ALICE | _ Levine, curates The Museum Of Curiosity on Radio 4 (5) |
| RUNAMOK | What exam administrator may do, suppressing Conservative's career recklessly |
| DEAN | University administrator may find source of agreement in study (4) |
| BULLROARER | Aboriginal instrument might rub a roller the wrong way (10) |
| CALLATRUCE | Ring a curate up to make peace (4,1,5) |
| ARTICULATE | Possessing joints, a curate lit up |
| THREEMENIN | Rub-a-dub-dub....for whom the bath bubbles? There's the rub! (5,3,2,1,3) |
| ARCHIMEDES | 'Rub-a-dub-dub' went his thoughts in the tub, till raising hell and high water with Eureka! (10) |
| BERNOULLI | Swiss scientist may rub O'Neill the wrong way (9) |
| UMBER | Hugh, we hear, may rub me up the wrong way (5) |
| MASSEUR | He may rub you up the wrong way (7) |
| ERASE | With a little rubber a secretary may rub out |
| NAPE | Where a turtleneck label may rub |
| KERB | A tyre may rub against one |
| BAYRUM | Something the barber may rub around? |
| BACCALAUREATE | Cable a curate, distraught about a test result |
| ACTUARIES | A curate is naughty? We understand the risks (9) |
| ADDLEEGG | Something famously served to a curate or a theologian, say, in part of course (5,3) |
| EVACUATE | A curate loses heart after back half of nave is empty (8) |
