| POLITICALLYCORRECT | Avoiding offence, in a way - like copper, initially |
| RUSSIFIED | America's condition: ie in a way like its Cold War rival? |
| BIOPSY | Diagnostic aid ordered, in a way, like almost (6) |
| RAILROADED | Convicted hastily and unfairly ... or, in a way, like the four other longest puzzle answers? |
| SWEARWORDS | They cause offence, in a manner of speaking, to Don getting bit of news in ship (10) |
| AMUSING | An offence in a fool or comic (7) |
| SMEE | "Man who stabbed, so to speak, without offence," in a 1911 novel |
| QUIDSIN | Substance offence in a good place |
| UMBRA | 12 like being upset and avoiding offence |
| BRONZE | Might take an age to fill in what looks like copper and feels like tin. (6) |
| MINUSCULE | A lot of information perhaps about American copper initially looking unimportant |
| CUPREOUS | Like copper to be improving in refresher course (8) |
| FILAMENT | Like copper maybe, offering final word in nick (8) |
| DIVALENT | Like copper maybe, offering final word in nick (8) |
| PYROMANIAC | Inflammatory person from unknown EU republic stopping avoiding offence (10) |
| EUPHEMISTIC | Some take up hem - I stick with aim of avoiding offence |
| EXAGGERATEDLY | In a larger-than-life way, like by a billion times! (13) |
| SLURP | Suck in a big way, like a food critic might? |
| RACEMOSE | People, some in a bad way, like a bunch of grapes (8) |
| ANIMATEDLY | In a lively way, like a cartoon |
