| NOWONDER | Blushing now, playing around as you'd expect |
| MANOFGOD | Damn goof playing around as a cleric (3,2,3) |
| POINTOFVIEW | Top five now playing around India generate opinion (5,2,4) |
| CONSPICUOUS | Extravagant spending, as you'd expect from over-the-top diva playing Mimi? (11,11) |
| CESTLAVIE | Select via corruption - it's just as you'd expect! |
| FIENDISH | Cryptic finished, as you'd expect one to be? |
| SNATCH | Kidnapping sons as you'd expect |
| AYE | Positive response, as you'd expect initially (3) |
| SUREENOUGH | Having sufficient confidence, as you'd expect (4,6) |
| NATURALLY | As you'd expect, a turn changes fellow-fighter (9) |
| NATURAL | Of note, just as you'd expect (7) |
| LIKEASHOT | Straight down the hatch, as you'd expect with slammer? |
| TYPICAL | It comes from clay-pit, just as you'd expect (7) |
| NATCH | Chant wildly and informally, as you'd expect |
| ALARM | Alert, as you'd expect the Marines to be? (5) |
| CLERIHEW | This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I |
| LIKE | and 27ac, Straight down the hatch, as you'd expect with slammer? (4,1,4) |
| ALANSHEPARD | Woman, as you'd expect in Australian country, who flew huge distances (4,7) |
| PARFORTHECOURSE | Old man abroad is confined to resort, just as you'd expect |
| ASUSUAL | American city, America, America on the rise - just as you'd expect (2,5) |
