| CROSSREFERENCE | Check angry allusion (5-9) |
| CROSSREFERENCES | Angry allusions to notes on other sources (5-10) |
| FIGUREOFSPEECH | Allusion |
| SIGNIFICATIONS | Allusions |
| CROSS | Petulant allusion to source of confirmation. (5,9) |
| REFERENCE | Petulant allusion to source of confirmation. (5,9) |
| BRASSTACKS | Term, in allusion to brazen nails holding things together, for basic realities, hard facts of business, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts and the like (5,5) |
| ASPERSION | Pejorative allusion to snake by senior rambler (9) |
| REFER | Make allusion in freer style (5) |
| INSINUATE | Suggest by indirect allusion (9) |
| NOHOLDSBARRED | Allusion to wrestling, meaning without restraints (2,5,6) |
| AUNTSALLY | Fairground allusion to the butt of ridicule (4,5) |
| PREFERENCESHARE | Quiet allusion to portion of advantageous stock (10,5) |
| OSULLIVAN | Another allusion about victory of snooker's Ronnie (9) |
| REFERTODRAWER | Make allusion to artist, suggesting lack of balance? (5,2,6) |
| SANDS | Seashores or deserts; or, with allusion to the grains in an hourglass, moments of time (5) |
| RUCHE | Word, from "beehive", in allusion to said skep's straw plaits, for a frill (5) |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| GRAFT | Rooted to "stylus", in allusion to a pencil-like shape, word for a scion, shoot or stem, inserted in a plant or stock (5) |
| FLAIR | Word, from "smell sweet" or "sense of smell", in allusion to the notion of one's ability to detect scent and react accordingly, for instinctive aptitude (5) |
