| HEADLOUSE | Cause of infestation in Spooner's heavy metal establishment? |
| CATFIGHT | Spooner's heavy bird of prey in kerfuffle |
| HAMSTER | Rodent infestation in Birmingham's terrible (7) |
| PLUMPEST | Infestation in orchard crop, perhaps, extremely well covered |
| PLAGUE | Infestation in place with row overlooking river (6) |
| RATHOLE | Sign of infestation at top of house, in part |
| FLEA | Endless worry about lake's source of infestation (4) |
| PARLOUS | Dangerous source of infestation, briefly substandard? (7) |
| ABODE | Residence, bad one with no end of infestation, requires demolition (5) |
| HOIST | Tackle landlord about source of infestation |
| SHEEPDIP | Lunatic hides PPE but stock at risk of infestation without it (5,3) |
| HERE | In this establishment? In another establishment |
| GOSSIPCOLUMN | For news of a pillar of the establishment? (6,6) |
| JOINTTENANT | One of the two living in the disreputable establishment? (5,6) |
| EARNEST | In all sincerity, is it near being changed in establishment? (7) |
| RAJAH | Member of the Eastern establishment? |
| MASSAGE | The whole time, standard in golf gets to threaten manipulative establishment? (7,7) |
| SALON | Sarah operating in hairdressing establishment? (5) |
| ANTI | Opposed from the left of the "establishment"? |
| BETTINGSHOP | Tips might be lucrative in this establishment? (7,4) |