| EXASPERATE | Bug - next, open borders to make it uneven (10) |
| LIPSTICK | Branch over border to make up (8) |
| BUMPY | Presumably having no laser makes it uneven (5) |
| OBSTRUCTS | May have open borders, but cuts too much (9) |
| OVERTRIMS | May have open borders, but cuts too much (9) |
| RUFF | By the sound of it, uneven band of feathers (4) |
| UNFENCED | Like an open border, perhaps |
| OVERTHEMOON | Absolutely delighted when open border has nothing on (4,3,4) |
| ATOB | Common direction of travel after they open border fronts (1,2,1) |
| DECKLEEDGE | Rough border to the last in underfloor shelf (6,4) |
| MOREORLESS | Customs introducing some charges at border, to a certain extent |
| DIVERGENCE | Cut round border to north in departure |
| EXPONENT | Interpreter of art may come next, open to review (8) |
| EXPONENTS | Could be next Open Champions, perhaps (9) |
| TRIPTYCH | Journey to Turkey's borders to see church altarpiece (8) |
| AUSSIES | Diggers Russia used, after crossing borders, to fill waters to the north (7) |
| ATTRACT | Entice NATO to annihilate borders to piece of land (7) |
| OASTS | Heading off to the borders to get some kilns (5) |
| BRIMSTONE | Hell's torment rained down from the Borders to Tyneside! (9) |
| KENDO | Fencing taken down, with borders to be cleared |
