| CANNONADE | Attack the girl the deacon is out to protect (9) |
| DIOCESAN | Deacon is out to get bishop |
| HORDE | Figure the hero is out to protect from the mob (5) |
| NOODLE | One is out to protect the doddering old fool |
| DISMISSAL | Getting rid of the girl the lad is crazy about (9) |
| ANTENATAL | A new talent out to protect area for clinic like this (9) |
| ANECDOTES | "Yarns The Deacon Spins," put back (9) |
| CHEATEDON | The deacon going through Reformation is deceived (7,2) |
| EVERAFTER | Does one turn out to protect a force for good? |
| GUILELESS | Honest work out to protect ailing housing estate, initially |
| ESMERALDA | Gypsy girl, the heroine of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (9) |
| LETHARGIC | A girl the different clubs become reluctant to move |
| OBLIGATOR | Wrongly boo at girl, the one in debt (9) |
| ANDTHEPEA | Fairy tale of the sensitive old age girl, The Princess ... (3,3,3) |
| EYE | Dean Martin was, "Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by; Standing on the corner giving all the girls the ..." |
| EVICTION | Throwing out the girl: the wrong one, I hold (8) |
| EMISSION | Throwing out the girl: the wrong one, I hold (8) |
| DOTTED | Struck on the girl, the boy is (6) |
| MANNERS | Nice behaviour of the girl the missus is embracing (7) |
| ISSUE | Is the girl the topic? (5) |
