| IDEOGRAMS | Chinese characters, say, creating a grid some decrypted (9) |
| PROTOTYPE | Opt for poetry, say, creating a precursor (9) |
| POWDERKEG | Priest worked badly, say, creating volatile situation (6,3) |
| FOOLSPARADISE | Trick Pole with a game, say, creating illusory bliss (5,8) |
| APOCRYPHA | I say! Cryptographer's decrypted registry with these books (9) |
| CUNEIFORM | Writing system of numeric characters decrypted (9) |
| PICTOGRAM | Maybe Chinese character and ancient Briton love to put on weight (9) |
| ROUTINELY | Regularly decrypted your intel (9) |
| INTEGRITY | Good character, say, enters Trinity, drunk (9) |
| PARADIGMS | Compile a grid and maps for frameworks (9) |
| SWISSROLL | Cake for European character, say (5,4) |
| MARDIGRAS | A grid dismantled in planet for festival (5,4) |
| TICTACTOE | Game with a grid |
| DOTMATRIX | Such a grid's pointed to mad, mad cruciverbalist, ultimately: man of farce (3,6) |
| LOPEDEVEGA | Develop characters, say, with a Spanish wordsmith (4,2,4) |
| MAHJONG | Meaning "sparrows", a game played with a set of tiles bearing Chinese characters and also symbols of bamboo, dots, dragons, flowers, seasons and winds (3-4) |
| KANJI | A Japanese writing system using Chinese characters |
| IDEOGRAM | Symbol such as a hieroglyph or a Chinese character (8) |
| OUTPACED | A code, put in a decrypted format, is surpassed (8) |
| EXCESS | Too much for two characters, say? (6) |
