| FLAMBOYANT | Colourful fellow hit lad then soldier (10) |
| PLAGIARISE | Mountain to go up? Then soldier will get an ascent in lift! |
| ACCIDENTALDEATH | Angry cadet hit lad with cane. Coroner says no one's to blame (10,5) |
| LAUNCHPAD | Punch a lad, then take off from here (9) |
| SHETLAND | Pony lads then set off (8) |
| FLASH | Vulgar fellow hit with a whip (5) |
| SPOCK | Logical fellow hit outside park (5) |
| CLUBMAN | Fashionable fellow hit on bishop, perhaps |
| DYER | Vatman, colourful fellow (4) |
| MACAW | Postgraduate might sing like a crow but is a colourful fellow |
| SCARLETFEVER | Colourful fellow always gets infection (7,5) |
| FRED | Loud colourful fellow (4) |
| MAROONED | Stranded, deserted by a colourful fellow (8) |
| SMITH | The common fellow hits out, perhaps, when many are taken in |
| UNACCOMPLISHED | Lad so nice, chump unfortunately lacking skill |
| DEADSEASCROLLS | Old documents finally destroyed by wanton lad - so careless! |
| ALTARBOY | Choir member will change lad so to speak (5,3) |
| PSALMODY | Singing hymns, my lad so drunk under piano (8) |
| JACK | ... the lad, so to speak, who climbed a beanstalk to meet a larger-than-life chap (4) |
| PALESTRINA | Least colourful band briefly introduces a musician of old (10) |
