| BLOCKADE | Bar musical type losing the head consumed by a bit of grass (8) |
| JAILER | One of those in Records Dept loses the head, consumed by local drink, and is given a job in the prison! (6) |
| COASTAL | Those in 31 across lose the head consumed by the black stuff by the sea (7) |
| ECOLOGIST | Worried about the environment, boxer loses head consumed by dangerous bacteria on street (9) |
| ADMITTED | Spilled the beans about Bill and Mitt and colourful type losing the head (8) |
| JEWELLER | Watch guy that's dealing with religious type losing the head with figure in the market (8) |
| ICEFLOES | They're as white as a sheet with charming type losing the head with current reports from school (3,5) |
| TOENAILS | On foot with sluggish types losing the head with those that need to be clipped (8) |
| SPIKELET | Goon allowed to have a bit of grass (8) |
| ARPEGGIO | I go for a grape rapidly, being the musical type (8) |
| WIZARDRY | Witty type entertains beastly type losing head with bad spelling perhaps (8) |
| ACCIDENT | Fate of detectives taken in by a bit of money (8) |
| SKEWERED | Impaled by a bit of husk ewe redigested (8) |
| PUNKROCK | Young hoodlum in New York linked to swing - the musical type (4,4) |
| RAILLERY | Less well entertained by a bit of light banter |
| ABDULLAH | Arab king's flat guarded by a bit of muscle, I see |
| BLUENOTE | Depressed, look, by a bit of jazz (4,4) |
| UKULELES | Musical types from Britain contact university for fishy eels (8) |
| ILLUMINATE | Shine a light on suffering by spicy type losing the head and put away (10) |
| WASTELAND | Desert shady type losing the head in The Magic Bar (9) |
