| ANDALL | Characters immersed in scandal lied, as well as the rest (3,3) |
| RECALL | Remember record as well as the rest? (6) |
| CID | Police department characters immersed in xenophobic ideology (3) |
| SMART | Dapper characters immersed in delicious martinis (5) |
| SWANSONG | Pen perhaps lied as a last hurrah (8) |
| SONG | Lied as child before finally confessing |
| SUNUP | Greek character immersed in drink when a new day dawns |
| OMEGA | Character immersed in some game (5) |
| STORED | Kept in reserve as the rest do in another way (6) |
| CHANGE | Coins said to be as good as the rest |
| ASSERT | Well, I declare! Just as the rest do (6) |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| DITHER | Article involved in scandal, cut in perturbation |
| GREENE | Author of 26 novels including Brighton Rock and Travels with My Aunt as well as the travel book Journey Without Maps and the play The Potting Shed (6) |
| ERGATE | Worker in scandal involving the Queen? |
| CICERO | "The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers," per Voltaire |
| AFFAIR | A pretty female involved in scandal (6) |
| DRAPER | Victorian Neoclassical painter noted for The Lament for Icarus as well as The Vintage Morn, A Water Baby, By Summer Seas and Pot Pourri (6) |
| TURKEY | A type of oak, as well as the mainstay of Christmas dinner (6) |
