| ALLAHABAD | City of UP had a ball hosting mela ultimately (9) |
| SNUBNOSED | Turned up, had a look round, rather puggish (4-5) |
| OCEANIA | Micro-, Mela-, and Polynesia |
| ADULTERATE | A grown-up had a long time to note the state of a spurious substance (10) |
| WHALE | Globicephala macrorhynchus or Globicephala melas, belonging to the dolphin family (Delphinidae) (5,5) |
| PILOT | And 26 Globicephala macrorhynchus or Globicephala melas, belonging to the dolphin family (Delphinidae) (5,5) |
| ILOVELUCY | *A show that had a Ball |
| PEREGRINE | Diving/stooping at speeds of up to 240 mph, a powerful species of falcon which is the fastest bird on Earth (9) |
| DRAGONFLY | Travelling at speeds of up to 35mph and mating in a unique wheel formation, often on the wing, a "devil's darning-needle" such as an azure hawker, blue dasher, emerald, flame skimmer or green darner ( |
| GREENLAND | Longest-lived vertebrate on earth, estimated to have a lifespan of up to 500 years; Somniosus microcephalus (9) |
| DOWNRIGHT | Thorough antonym of up left! (9) |
| NEWSPAPER | Source of up-to-date information (9) |
| PORCUPINE | Spiny rodent's meat talked of up in Edinburgh originally |
| DANCE | About to play a part in Hamlet, perhaps, had a ball |
| ATE | Had a ball ... a meatball, that is |
| THEDANSANT | Drunken tenants had a ball in the afternoon |
| DANCED | Had a ball perhaps in The Man from Clare with leading director (6) |
| RICARDOS | Nicole had a ball in this role? (5,3,8) |
| BEINGTHE | Nicole had a ball in this role? (5,3,8) |
| SNL | Where Crystal had a ball: abbr. |
