| STARSTRUCK | Bowled over by big hitter, son admitted to beginning fight (4-6) |
| TRESPASSES | Sins with time on hands, son admitted (10) |
| CRUSTACEAN | A move to beginning of ocean following edge of bread and lobster, for example (10) |
| PILEDRIVER | Big-hitter, banker after a lot of money heading for disaster |
| WHITEMAGIC | After a bit, one willing to be bowled over by Charlie's good spelling? |
| DISC | Son admitted to lying about police record (4) |
| PROSPERO | Magician's son admitted to appropriate circle |
| ESSAY | Son admitted to surprisingly easy composition (5) |
| DESCENT | Son admitted to proper nationality (7) |
| IMPEDE | Slow down - I am by Port Elizabeth, next to beginning of Despatch (6) |
| BABERUTH | Big hitter in States planting tuber? Bah! (4,4) |
| INASPOT | Having problem cooking, son admitted? (2,1,4) |
| REHEARSE | About to listen to beginning and end of scripture read aloud? (8) |
| CLEETHORPES | Resort to beginning of psalm: "Closer to Thee", perhaps? (11) |
| WHATFOR | Why the confusion about how far to beginning? (4,3) |
| EMIT | Give out the hour from end to beginning (4) |
| SLEDGES | More than one big hitter shelves plans in the end to open (7) |
| SOCCER | Ball game's big hitter being talked about (6) |
| BREZHNEV | Bowled with reverse swing trapping unknown hard Northern big-hitter (8) |
| SLEDGEHAMMER | Creep hard to put in jail is a big hitter |
