| STEVENAGE | Checks up on household, miles away in Hertfordshire town |
| OPUS | Being only partially in retirement, checks up on work |
| STEVEDORE | Worker at Tilbury checks up on produce before going outside (9) |
| STEVECRAM | Former athlete checks up on energy and stuff (5,4) |
| STEVE | Comedian checks up on Green, top radio star (5,6) |
| COOGAN | Comedian checks up on Green, top radio star (5,6) |
| MANITOBA | Enthusiasm about mausoleum miles away in northern territory |
| READINESS | Studies introducing explosives miles away in prepared position |
| PENLIGHT | Torch found by soldiers miles away in hole |
| AFAR | Miles away in a service that's running over (4) |
| YORK | Irksomely miles away in the county (4) |
| LOWMASS | Service, first of all, wayward: miles away in defeat (3,4) |
| ARCO | Polo, say, miles away in Bow (4) |
| SAFARI | Wildlife tour miles away in southern India (6) |
| SCHMO | Dullard ignoring odds in form checks up |
| KEEPHONEST | Check up on, in a way (4 to 8) |
| VETO | Impose a ban in order to check up on top order (4) |
| SPOTS | Checks up and notices something |
| CHOREPATROL | Mom checking on household duties? |
| DROVE | Went for the green finish on household range (5) |
