| RACHMANINOV | Composer arranged a march in thirty days |
| APPROVAL | In thirty days parking alongside cricket ground will get green light |
| NOVEMBER | No shift involving doctor in thirty days |
| JOSHHARTNETT | Slevin Kelevra in Lucky Number Slevin, Eben Oleson in 30 Days Of Night and Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert in The Black Dahlia, are film roles played by this US actor (4,8) |
| MARRAKECH | African city a progressive type captured in thirty one days |
| MAINSTAY | In thirty-one days, saint converted a tower of strength (8) |
| ARNE | Composer arranged in oddly selective way |
| FENDER | Percy -, cricketer who hit a century in thirty-five minutes for Surrey in 1920 (6) |
| MACHINERY | System ECHR delivered cryptically in thirty-one days |
| AUGMENT | Increase number of soldiers replacing us in thirty one days |
| MATRIARCH | She heads unfinished test in thirty-one days (9) |
| FALLACIOUS | Flawed Spanish composer arranged no music lacking intros |
| PUCCINI | Composer arranged picnic around mid-January (7) |
| CARL | Composer arranged carol, originally really, really loudly (4,4) |
| ORFF | Composer arranged carol, originally really, really loudly (4,4) |
| PSALMIST | Composer arranged maps and list (8) |
| LUNARECLIPSE | Satellite in thirty five activated nuclear piles |
| COVENTRYPATMORE | Poet with city father beginning in thirty seconds |
| EIGHTEENMO | The genome one decoded in thirty-six pages |
| HOMING | Variety of pigeon in thirty seconds maybe devoured by boar |
