| ANTIGUA | Answers going round in gut about island |
| AGGRIEVE | Wrong answer going in margins, plus grid's centre the day before (8) |
| DUBAI | Call I answer, going to the West Country |
| RETINOL | A recluse has the answer, going around a compound (7) |
| VISCERAL | Five eclairs possibly contributing to something felt in gut |
| INTESTINE | During trial, fashionable to put additive in gut (9) |
| DOUBLEUP | React to punch in gut and sleep together (6,2) |
| ILEAC | Iodine percolating halfway in gut (5) |
| DIGESTING | Get energy by painful injection dissolving in gut |
| COLIC | Mostly hit it off, embracing love in gut reaction (5) |
| CARING | Sensitive scar in gut concealed (6) |
| EMULATING | Trying to equal male in gut possibly |
| COLONY | Many bacteria in gut part unknown |
| ECOLI | Green sauce mostly something in gut (1,4) |
| OUTOF | Nothing on move in gut, food fits mouth: this saw antithesis of 12/18! (3,2,5,3,2,4) |
| TIGERNUTS | Soaked and boiled, they're good carp bait (*rest in gut) (5,4) |
| GRIT | Sand in guts (4) |
| FRACTION | A bit lacking in guts, fear combat |
| ICING | Finishing cake, a little dyspeptic in guts |
| ENTERIC | Record first signs of indigestion creaking in guts (7) |
