| REALISTIC | Celebrities breaking German rule? Not entirely true-to-life |
| LOYAL | Left old university? Not entirely true (5) |
| ESTHER | Beauty proves the rule? Not entirely (6) |
| TOSOMEDEGREE | Not entirely true, being overwhelmed by book award |
| FLAWLESS | Perfect, following system of rules? Not so |
| ALSACELORRAINE | Area of France under German rule from 1871 to 1919 and 1940 to 1944 (6-8) |
| POZNAN | City in Poland on the Warta River, centre of resistance to German rule in World War II (6) |
| STEFFI | _ Graf, record-breaking German ex-tennis player (6) |
| ILIED | "OK, so that wasn't entirely true" |
| HERERO | Namibian people who rebelled against German rule, 1904-1908 (6) |
| LUMPIER | Imp rule not OK: it's not as smooth (7) |
| REGRETFUL | Flyer loudly breaking rule not altogether sorry (9) |
| LAWOFTHELAND | Rule not mainly enforced? (3,2,3,4) |
| ANON | Rule not being initiated soon (4) |
| CODE | Set of rules not easy to break |
| FEIGN | Assume following rule's not right (5) |
| YOKE | Oppressive rule: not white, by the sound of it |
| NORMANDY | As a rule, not all houses with place for landings |
| CANONLAW | Church rules not applicable to lay readers? |
| GAULEITER | Old governor's rule, not the first, blocking legwear item |
