| VLADIMIRNABOKOV | Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunk (8,7) |
| THORA | Insect part connected to the head via the cervi* |
| SOFTENUP | Appease via drink-swilling, usually (6,2) |
| GONCHAROV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov |
| AHARDNUTTOCRACK | Arrange chat with a drunk actor? That's a big ask (1,4,3,2,5) |
| HAMITUP | Put him with a drunk to overact (3,2,2) |
| ICEDTEA | Prepared deceit with a drunk in the summer (4,3) |
| SAINTSAENS | Composer's nastiness with a drunk |
| WHITEMEAT | Chicken, say, to meet with a drunk |
| OBTAINED | Got into bed with a drunk (8) |
| RACK | Instrument of torture to split having lost head |
| ENHANCE | Improve luck, having lost head after being oddly lost (7) |
| INTER | Dispose of body, having lost head in the cold weather (5) |
| OTTER | Snooker player, having lost head, is a beast (5) |
| EAVES | Part of house one abandons, having lost head (5) |
| ORGIASTIC | Frenzied dog, having lost head over drink, beginning to champ (9) |
| REHAB | Treatment with respect to whaler having lost head |
| AMBLING | Going for a stroll having lost head playing poker perhaps (7) |
| EMBER | Smouldering remnant of politician having lost head (5) |
| EMERSON | Having lost head, individual rings me, an American philosopher (7) |
