| PICKLES | Choose Les to get gherkins (7) |
| ELECTS | Chooses Les etc for the part (6) |
| SLEUTHS | Get Les to shut it whilst they're looking for clues (7) |
| SADDLES | Dad's going round with Les to fetch some bicycle seats (7) |
| SILENCE | It might be nice, Les, to have peace and quiet (7) |
| TARTARE | A mayonnaise sauce mixed with egg yolks, capers, gherkins and herbs (7) |
| GRAHAME | Author who describes a riverbank picnic of "cold chicken, tongue, ham, beef, pickled gherkins, salad, French rolls, cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer, lemonade and soda water" in his tale The |
| KINDEST | Gherkin destined to be revealed as the most benign (7) |
| PICKLED | Drunk (as a gherkin?) (7) |
| PRICKLE | Thorn found right in gherkin (7) |
| ROLLMOP | Hors d'oeuvre of herring and gherkin (7) |
| RULES | You are to get Les to form the guiding principles |
| CASTLE | Get Les to act in The Fortress (6) |
| SIDLE | I'd get Les to move sideways (5) |
| SPLINTER | Be sharp! Get Les to print it (8) |
| HEELS | He gets Les to make them for shoes (5) |
| ESLER | Journalist and presenter Gavin takes Les to ER (5) |
| DILL | Herb with a flavour similar to anise and fennel, used to flavour gravlax, pickled gherkins or salmon en papillote (4) |
| TARTARESAUCE | Mayonnaise mixed with onion, gherkins and capers (7,5) |
| TILES | Is it wrong for Les to be out on them? (5) |
