| PARADISE | Adult in despair perhaps finds Eden |
| PRAISED | Despair, perhaps, though commended |
| NIRVANA | Vehicle in rain perhaps finds paradise (7) |
| SURNAME | Smith perhaps finds vase in unchanged situation (7) |
| CONTINGENT | German leader in Europe, perhaps, finds group of soldiers (10) |
| SPREAD | Get one out of despair, perhaps with a good meal (6) |
| FOOTFALL | Travel agent perhaps finds Boston in the autumn takes into account what the trade is like (8) |
| LADYBIRD | Woman, for a lark perhaps, finds a beetle |
| HAIRCUT | Bob, perhaps, finds musical cancelled |
| BIPED | Man, perhaps, finds uprising good during plot |
| ARTIST | Constable, perhaps, finds agitator for reform leaving church |
| LANDSLIP | Grass-roots movement, perhaps, finds itself on the edge |
| ONEARMED | Bandit, perhaps, finds love close to sea (3-5) |
| TRENT | Romeo camping perhaps finds flower |
| SHORTCUT | Bob perhaps finds faster route |
| GLOSSY | She, perhaps, finds absence at the core of hollow man |
| SEPTUAGENARIAN | Retiree perhaps finds rotten pear nauseating (14) |
| WARPLANE | Spitfire, perhaps, finds bend on road (8) |
| BOIL | British crude perhaps finds growth (4) |
| MANSBESTFRIEND | Boxer perhaps finds me absent, upset about end of career (4,4,6) |
