| THINONTOP | Balding, with obsession mostly about cap (4,2,3) |
| THWACKING | Liverpudlian with obsession about caning (9) |
| EARTHLING | Listener with obsession about large sci-fi character |
| TASMANIAN | Islander and son with obsession to get brown all round |
| NEARTHING | Knight, with obsession for Listener, in close shave (4,5) |
| LASTTHING | Orchestral leader with obsession finally before bed? (4,5) |
| ONTHEMOVE | Working with those people, mostly about going places |
| TRAUMATIC | Distressing illusion, mostly about gold rug (9) |
| CORROSION | Number one affliction, mostly about rising decay |
| FEESIMPLE | Tentative proposal, mostly about second brat's form of inheritance |
| HALLOWEEN | Sound conclusion, mostly, about vulgar festival |
| DEMOCRACY | Funny play mostly about spirited India, say (9) |
| PROVENDER | Maxim mostly about target food for livestock (9) |
| BALLERINA | Dancer's song mostly about Ireland (9) |
| GUTENBERG | Innovative printer's instinctive vigour, mostly about book |
| TRATTORIA | Restaurant prosecution mostly about nothing after dessert returned |
| BERET | Wager included about cap (5) |
| LIMIT | I am illuminated about cap (5) |
| STAMINA | Wrong about cap on American energy (7) |
| PATELLAR | Patrick Fitzgerald right about cap? (8) |
