| DELICATE | Changing diet, Alec's fragile (8) |
| EXPEDITE | Speed up past exercise by changing diet (8) |
| MEDITATE | Reflect with partner about changing diet (8) |
| KNOWALLS | Wise guys, eh? Yeah, smart alecs! (8 or 4-4) |
| OSCULATE | Alec's out-manoeuvred by ceremonial kiss (8) |
| WISEGUYS | Smart alecs, characters with pretence, we hear? |
| CATBELLS | Popular Lakeland fell - Alec's BLT prepared (8) |
| POLECATS | Mustelids ruin Alec's top (8) |
| NOMINATE | Put up memo about minimum grade for smart alecs? |
| ALFRESCO | Alec's for operating in the open-air (8) |
| CAROUSEL | Our Alec's novel situated in JFK's milieu of high-flyers, for example (8) |
| GUINNESS | Actor Alec's genius is misrepresented around new school (8) |
| ALLSPICE | Alec's lip (anag) - dried aromatic fruit used whole or ground (8) |
| ACCESSES | Alec's classes are a disaster, gets in everywhere (8,3,5) |
| ALLAREAS | Alec's classes are a disaster, gets in everywhere (8,3,5) |
| CLEANEST | Alec's net turns out to be the least dirty (8) |
| WISEACRE | Smart Alec's old way to get a port |
| LOSEFACE | Alec's foe made to be humiliated (4,4) |
| ANTIDOTE | Changing diet not a remedy (8) |
| ERUDITE | Learned to rue changing diet for the worse (7) |
