| TRAGEDY | Aim to house the elderly is a disaster (7) |
| GOLDEN | Information about the elderly is very precious (6) |
| BEGGARS | Urge the locals to house the poor people (7) |
| DECADES | Dee's got to house the cad for many years (7) |
| TORNADO | In two minds over a party is a disaster, naturally (7) |
| DEBACLE | Society girl with torn lace is a disaster (7) |
| CHARLIE | Jacqueline Kennedy gave this Welsh terrier as a gift to her husband, U.S. President John Kennedy, when they moved into the White House. The dog would often swim laps in the pool with the president. |
| SLAMMER | Another name for the big house, the clink, the hoosegow, the pen, etc. |
| CRYSTALPALACE | Name given to a building erected to house the Great Exhibition of 1851; also a London football club (7,6) |
| ECOLOGY | From the Greek meaning "house", the study of the relationships between living organisms and their physical environments (7) |
| KEYHOLE | Island house the French will make a tempting prospect for some? (7) |
| LABYRINTH | Word for a maze in a landscaped garden or for something inextricably complicated that derives from the elaborate structure built by craftsman Daedalus to house the Minotaur (9) |
| LESOTHO | Country house the foreign boozer goes to |
| BANJO | ___ rear axle, made in one piece with a hoop-shaped portion in the middle to house the drive assembly (5) |
| JARDINDESPLANTES | The oldest botanical garden in Paris, originally created in 1635 by Louis XIII's physicians to house the royal medicinal herb garden (6,3,7) |
| HANDLEY | Convenient to house the French 19 Across (7) |
| ASYLUM | A bad neighbourhood to house the head of youth shelter (6) |
| GRUESOME | Macabre morgue constructed to house the last of the Mohicans (8) |
| FELINE | Acceptable to house the Spanish cat |
| ETNA | Mount thought to house the forge of Hephaestus |
