| ONCOURSE | Certainly going in the wrong direction, one French leader absent (2,6) |
| OFCOURSE | Certainly going in the wrong direction, one French leader absent (2,6) |
| MISLED | Taken in the wrong direction, one sliding down the motorway? (6) |
| PERUSAL | Reading certainly going backwards in sport (7) |
| RECESS | Break made by part of posse certainly going north (6) |
| OUTBOUND | Around Utah approaching spring - that's the direction one needs to head towards to get away from city (8) |
| ANTERIOR | With leader absent, badinage beginning to inspire soldiers at the front |
| PARALLEL | Going in the same direction but always the same distance apart (8) |
| ATLANTIS | Finally changing direction, one's found a vanished land |
| SHAREOUT | Are going in the call for a distribution (5-3) |
| CONTINUE | Keep going in the same place, at last (8) |
| MEGALITH | Huge stone finally going in the mail, remarkably |
| IVANA | Former Trump partner in civilian aviation going in the wrong direction (5) |
| MEETS | Comes across as judge losing head, going in the wrong direction (5) |
| ABERRANCE | Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction (9) |
| ESOL | English education system to fail, going in the wrong direction |
| BOMBARD | Attack dull lot of people going in the wrong direction (7) |
| SUPERB | By going in the wrong bus, you get a fine result! (6) |
| ASPECT | Compass direction one's garden, greenhouse or property faces; or, the angular relationship between one planet and another in astrology (6) |
| STINK | Is direction, one given in class, going to cause trouble? (5,1,5) |
