| DRINKDRIVING | Being behind the wheel and under the influence (5-7) |
| DRIVES | Is behind the wheel and plunges right into (6) |
| AFTER | You're fat and show little hesitation in being behind the rest (5) |
| DRIVE | Be at the wheel and upset Verdi (5) |
| MARTYRED | Nip back to take the wheel and be killed for the cause (8) |
| STEER | Take the wheel and set off back again (5) |
| FORESHADOWED | Warned of being behind, European's previously needed to pay |
| DEFLATE | Fed up with being behind the clock, let the air out of one's tyres (7) |
| CLINCHER | Queen Elizabeth being behind the embrace is the decider (8) |
| KEEPING | Being behind the wicket, a barrel may hold a sort of pine (7) |
| IMPASSE | Admit to being behind the times in a dead end (7) |
| OVERTURNED | Was too sharp on the wheel and capsized (10) |
| JETLAG | Feeling of being behind the times? (3,3) |
| OUTDATED | Disclosed about most of data being behind the times (8) |
| OLDFOGEY | Edgy fool unsettled, being behind the times perhaps |
| ILLEGAL | Under the counter and under the weather before gale broke (7) |
| LANDINGGEAR | The wheels and shock absorbers that support an aircraft on the ground and enable it to take off (7,4) |
| GREENAWAY | Illustrator of "toy books", including Marigold Garden, Mother Goose and Under the Window, who was the daughter of an engraver and a milliner, and a friend of John Ruskin (9) |
| KEANE | Band whose albums include Hopes And Fears and Under The Iron Sea (5) |
| IRISMURDOCH | Author of "The Sea, the Sea" and "Under the Net" |
