| OLIVEBRANCH | Conciliatory gesture made by Oscar, as it happens, with backing of department (5,6) |
| ALTEREGO | Change, say, shown by Oscar as different version of self (5,3) |
| FUTUREEVENT | It will happen with odd bits of fruit and nut getting chewed (6,5) |
| COINCIDENCE | Strange it should happen with company showing how often it occurs (11) |
| VICTORYSIGN | Hand gesture made famous by Winston Churchill (7,4) |
| APPARATCHIK | A trip a chap arranged with backing of slack party official (11) |
| HELENMIRREN | Actress who won a Best Actress Oscar as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen": 2 wds. |
| MERYLSTREEP | Actress who won a Best Actress Oscar as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady": 2 wds. |
| DANIELDEFOE | Flexible deadline with backing of English writer |
| RACHMANINOV | New chairman with backing of German composer |
| RELIEVE | Replace engineers, as it happens, with head of engineering (7) |
| CLIVE | Caught, as it happens, with Mr Dunn who was Corporal Jones in Dad's Army (5) |
| LIVEANDLEARN | Benefit from experience, as it happens, with large gain |
| LIVEITUP | Celebrate as it happens, with revolutionary Russian leader cut short (4,2,2) |
| OLIVEOIL | Dressing duck, as it happens, with effort ___ time's wasted (5,3) |
| LIVERISH | Irritable, as it happens, with whiskey being unopened |
| SIGNSIN | Gesture made by boy who registers as unemployed (5,2) |
| SIGNET | Expressive gesture made by an alien to a little seal (6) |
| SHRUG | Gesture made by lifting both shoulders (5) |
| SALAAM | Gesture made by foreigner upset mother, unfortunately |
