| LAYDOWNTHELAW | Be adamant about putting the policeman prone (3,4,3,3) |
| HEARD | Learned to be adamant about closing time (5) |
| INSIST | Be adamant about sit-ins (6) |
| HOMEECONOMICS | The House is concerned with state's finances and, of course, the teachers maintain it's about putting food on the table (4,9) |
| CONVERSATIONS | Talks about putting misshapen croissant in the oven? |
| PROMENADEDECK | Ok! The policeman meandered along it on board |
| IMPLACABLE | One politician, prominent LibDem, admitting the French can be adamant (10) |
| STICKSTOHIS | The rifleman is adamant about the outcome of discarded chewing gum (6,2,3,4) |
| GUNS | The rifleman is adamant about the outcome of discarded chewing gum (6,2,3,4) |
| ATHEIST | Freethinker is extremely adamant about the dissertation without scientific base (7) |
| FIREARM | Are strangely adamant about the weapon (7) |
| RESOLUTE | Adamant about throwing out louts with Ecstasy (8) |
| HAROLD | He was adamant about finishing school (6) |
| INCONSISTENT | Adamant about prisoner being changeable (12) |
| CANADA | American adamant about acquiring some land (6) |
| EAUDENIL | Be relaxed about putting poet in shade |
| RUMINATE | Think about putting rum in the tea, perhaps (8) |
| STERN | Was very strict about putting one at the back (5) |
| LOPING | I'm leaping about putting a pin in the log (6) |
| RIDER | Clear about putting back the codicil (5) |
