| MACROCOSM | Complex structure allowed two males to snare a freshie overseas (9) |
| CROC | Short word for a freshie or saltie, whose serrated interlocking jaws are likened to a long sprung metal clip (4) |
| OMELETTE | Old setter allowed two eggs, originally, to make this? (8) |
| HEROICCOUPLET | Stunning success by brave allowed two lines by Chaucer |
| GOREVIDAL | Writer's note to snare a pickpocket on the rise (4,5) |
| FABRICATE | The whole of a complex structure (9) |
| LABYRINTH | Complex structure of the inner ear comprising an osseous, or bony, part and a membranous part (9) |
| AMENDMENT | Change alpha-males to reserved (at last!) males over time (9) |
| PHENOMENA | Only females love males to wear father's spectacles (9) |
| ATTHEHELM | In control of a race meeting taking two males fifty miles (2,3,4) |
| COMMANDOS | Soldiers from company, two males heading off for chicken restaurant (9) |
| INSTAGRAM | Two males following popular app with photos (9) |
| MIDSUMMER | Solstice represented cryptically by two males (9) |
| CENTAUR | Almost a hundred needed to snare a mythical creature (7) |
| LARIAT | It has end twirling to snare a steer's rear? (6) |
| PARTNER | Setback for ruse that's no use to snare a husband |
| WAGTAIL | Keen to snare a great bird (7) |
| MANET | Mother to snare a painter (5) |
| SENATOR | Wrong to snare a politician |
| PARTICLE | Word for something as seemingly simple as a crumb or a speck of dust but also for a highly complex structure, such as an atom, proton, neutron or quark (8) |
