| AFOOLSERRAND | Area with a type of gold taken to task for getting the newcomer to order the striped paint (1,4'1,6) |
| AGORA | Silver and gold taken to a marketplace (5) |
| DISTEMPER | Confounding me, striped paint! (9) |
| RUMPELSTILTSKIN | Legendary type of gold spinner in a guessing game - he wants the babe all to himself (15) |
| FLS | Type of gold |
| FOOLS | Type of gold |
| SLEEPWALKERS | School to pare back equipment for getting the children to move those dozy types just out of bed (12) |
| TIPTHEWINNER | Presumably, this is the strategy for getting the profits from accountant for course work? (3,3,6) |
| BOTTLEOPENER | Device for getting the top off a beer container (6-6) |
| DONTASKME | I've haven't a clue mafia boss is taken to task for a fair amount of the viral phenomenon (4,3,2) |
| HOLDSTHEFORT | Temporarily guards and checks gold taken in robbery (5,3,4) |
| LIBERATED | Blair regularly taken to task for being free of social constraints (9) |
| VUILLARD | Painter who lived with his mother, a dressmaker, until he was 60, hence themes of cloth/sewing in his many works including The Flowered Dress, The Seamstress, The Striped Blouse, The Thread and Walkin |
| EMISSION | European taken to task for radiation leakage? |
| BERATING | Taking to task - for dropping a tin-opener in the sea |
| AUSPICE | Gold taken with relish - a sign of good things ahead? |
| FESTERS | Bludges with gold taken away from carers of the bushland (7) |
| CLUBBERS | Those taking steps on a night out to order the odd beer going around Rhodes (8) |
| ARRIVAL | A rebel leader to match the newcomer (7) |
| ANDREA | Italian opera singer who won the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994 (6,7) |
