| MARTINIQUE | Caribbean island - make houses popular, it being in recession |
| IRISHTERRIERS | Jack Russell's relatives living on the island make a mistake in rows (5,8) |
| BEING | Request charity houses popular person |
| VILLAIN | Mediterranean-style house popular with bad guy |
| LIBRARIES | Reading rooms that make houses share article |
| SHERLOCKHOLMES | Make houses secure, we"re told, after he's arrested by senior detective (8,6) |
| INSERT | It's so popular, it takes a roster to get to it (6) |
| RESORT | It's so popular, it takes a roster to get to it (6) |
| HOLLY | Left in 'pious,' it being in keeping with Christmas |
| PITIED | Regretted it being in black and white (6) |
| ESPERANTO | One prates about it being in an international tongue (9) |
| PROFANITY | Four-letter word? Teacher uses it, being in a state |
| DITHER | Be uncertain about it being in the wild herd |
| MATERNITY | Motherhood for a term, maybe, it being in New York (9) |
| RETICULE | Cruel, tie that's achieved, it being in the bag (8) |
| GENTRY | Half the Wolves score at rugby, it being in the church (6) |
| USE | Take advantage of it being in various experiments (3) |
| REMORSE | That uneasy feeling of conscience about it being in code |
| SUBTITLE | Understated case for it being in film translation (8) |
| INITIATED | Popular, it gets one a man started (9) |
