| ALISTAIRCOOKE | America's epistolist with a satiric look East, perhaps (8,5) |
| COLBERT | Comic with a satiric news show |
| CHARISMATIC | Appealing companion with a satiric bent about money (11) |
| ROSESARERED | Start of many a satiric verse |
| LETTER | A billet-doux, missive or note composed by an epistolist (6) |
| TEARASTRIPOFF | Criticize severely for profit abroad - in far east perhaps (4,1,5,3) |
| FARCEFROMHOME | Satiric video of a backyard gathering? |
| INSUPPORTABLE | Satiric |
| CELEB | Church starts to look east: behold a star! |
| ATSEA | Sailing east, perhaps, with a heavy heart (2,3) |
| LOOE | Look east around empty resort |
| LOCATE | Look east ___ find tiger maybe in that place (6) |
| COMMISSIONAIRE | Look east to pursue appointment, becoming hotel employee (14) |
| EYES | They look east, no doubt (4) |
| IMBECILE | That is about to climb east, perhaps, like a fool (8) |
| SIESTA | Is rest going back East, perhaps, for a rest (6) |
| HIGHPOINT | The best bit on a trip east, perhaps |
| THEOCRAT | Leader on a mission from God to chart east, perhaps (8) |
| OILER | A ship from the Middle East, perhaps |
| EQUATES | Reduces to an average a quest around the East perhaps (7) |