| PREPONDERATE | Consider cutting endless red tape oddly, to be most important (12) |
| DEPART | Leave endless red tape out! (6) |
| EPIGRAMMATIC | Witty and clever CIA met oddly to grab farm animals (12) |
| NUMBERONE | Wee fellow reckoned to be most important? (6,3) |
| VISIT | Victor appears to be most important in call |
| TOPLEVEL | Best students take woman to be most important |
| SUPREME | Wrongly presume to be most important (7) |
| PREDOMINATE | Point remade in order to be most important? (11) |
| DISEMBARKATION | Drake's ambition, oddly, to be getting off the boat |
| SOULMATE | Bully almost used, oddly, to be the perfect friend? (4,4) |
| SPARKLE | Pole kilted, oddly, to be witty (7) |
| SERE | Spear set oddly to be dried out |
| EDGES | Skirts editor agrees oddly to be removed (5) |
| MAKEIT | Source of motivation I take oddly to be successful (4,2) |
| DESPAIR | Aspired, oddly, to be where all hope is lost (7) |
| TRUE | Turf used oddly, to be honest (4) |
| VACANCY | After holiday, start to consider cutting some unfilled post (7) |
| INCLINE | Start to consider cutting fashionable brand list (7) |
| ABOVEALL | A lovable disposition may be most important |
| REIGN | Be most important feature during period of rule (5) |
