| DEVILMAYCARE | Audacious and novel way to commemorate centenary |
| RIP | A way to commemorate the dead |
| GIFT | Way to commemorate someone's retirement |
| BIRTHDAYPRESENT | Crazy bartender's pithy way to commemorate initial delivery |
| KIDNAPPED | Novel way to have been held to ransom (9) |
| BREAKOUTINARASH | Has a bad reaction to escape from prison up north that's initially audacious and reckless (5,3,2,1,4) |
| BRUNEL | Cigar-smoking top hat-wearing visionary Victorian genius whose transformation of bridge building, railways and steamship design left an enduring legacy of audacious and often pioneering engineering fe |
| BOLDEST | Most audacious and better than the rest — mature within |
| ANSWERTHEDOOR | Whore snorted, a novel way to respond to her knockers (6,3,4) |
| CREATIVEWRING | Novel way to twist clothes dry? |
| AGNESGREY | Novel way to create energy with gas (5,4) |
| NEWSSTAND | Where the tabloids, perhaps, find novel way to occupy beach (9) |
| SWINEHERD | Animal minder's novel way to secure tent, for example |
| DOCTORTHORNE | Novel way to get throne? |
| PAGETURNER | Novel way to summon artist |
| SHERD | Novel way to identify archaeologist's find |
| ONTHEROAD | In the Fifties, a novel way to travel |
| MODERN | Novel way to join one of the services |
| NORTHANGERABBEY | Novel way to get Arab outsiders past Turk (10,5) |
| DOMBEYANDSON | Novel way to change beds on Monday (6,3,3) |
