| INDICATED | At home, CIB officer acted strangely as suggested (9) |
| CADET | The young trainee police officer acted awkwardly (5) |
| PROVIDING | CIB officer is inside showing what the caterer was doing (9) |
| DISSENTED | Sides tend to move strangely as withheld agreement |
| ERADICATE | To kill time, I acted strangely (9) |
| CATCALLED | Jeered and acted strangely, holding phone (9) |
| DEDICATED | After editor came up, I'd acted strangely, being singleminded (9) |
| ALLOCATED | Distributed everything round and acted strangely (9) |
| SCATTERED | Rest acted strangely and broke up (9) |
| COLDSWEAT | Owls acted strangely, causing state of panic (4,5) |
| ARMYCADET | Mary acted strangely like a military trainee (4,5) |
| ACERBATED | Embittered bear acted strangely |
| INTIMATED | Close with key, as suggested (9) |
| PROFFERED | A couple, in short, volunteered, as suggested (9) |
| AUDIBLE | Upstart CIB officer has competent exterior for the hearing (7) |
| STRICT | Hardline senior CIB officer leaves region (6) |
| ADDICT | Junkie gives performance about daughter with CIB officer (6) |
| SOLIPSISM | Philosophical theory that the self is all that one can be certain exists, as suggested by Descartes 'famous' I think, therefore I am' (9) |
| CORNERLOT | Prominent location to build on (as suggested by this puzzle?) |
| BOTTOMROW | Last line of a spreadsheet (as suggested by the circled squares?) |
