| ENGINEER | Contact this man if the motor starts to hesitate |
| BASSETHORN | The hound starts to hesitate over the navy getting a musical instrument (6,4) |
| CAR | Motor starts to clatter and rattle |
| CAPRI | 1970s motor starts to come apart, probably rust induced (5) |
| RESEARCH | Find out about alternative careers and then start to hesitate (8) |
| HEM | Start to hesitate? |
| SEETHROUGH | Is this what anyone can do to The Invisible Man if you have his number? (3,7) |
| LIE | Advice to a confidence man if he wants to avoid detection? (3,3) |
| LIELOW | Advice to a confidence man if he wants to avoid detection? (3,3) |
| FAMINE | Man if in trouble beginning to experience starvation (6) |
| MALEFIC | Man, if getting up to a hundred, becomes harmful (7) |
| EDIFICE | Large building used by man if next to skating area (7) |
| PROFIT | "For what shall it ... a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Bible) |
| EFFENDI | Address for Turkish man, if prime of figs need re-ordering (7) |
| MYXOMATA | My old man (if grand) with a tax cruelly inflicted on rabbits (8) |
| DANDIFY | Dress up as duke, man, if being entertained |
| ADMITS | Takes in a desperate man if terribly sick on first inspection |
| ASSASSIN | Hit man if fool doubled over at home (8) |
| SUMUS | We are a top man, if half-hearted |
| AIOLI | Man, if only I regularly made sauce (5) |
