| INTEL | Content in the spy's secret file |
| COVER | Such the spy's story that newsman will report on (5) |
| LIFT | Steal secret file about cases |
| DOSSIER | Secret file |
| DEIGHTON | Author who not only taught a generation of bachelors to make bœuf bourguignon, chicken paprika, crepes, focaccia and minestrone with his gourmet "cookstrips", but also wrote the "Secret File" boo |
| PLEASEDASPUNCH | Content in the style of old magazine? |
| EMAIL | Content in the spam folder |
| INTERIM | Printer improvised some content in the meantime |
| RABBIT | Teacher content in the end, is one good at multiplication? (6) |
| FBI | J Edgar Hoover kept the secret files he had amassed during the 48 years he had led this organisation until his death in 1977 (1,1,1) |
| CUTOUT | A dummy figure used as a silent companion or a fireside prop; a standee in a window of a shop; a peephole in a frock; a spy's secret go-between in a plot; or, any of Matisse's decoupage pieces forming |
| RILLING | Edible contents in the centre of a pie, sandwich or Victoria sponge; weft/woof; or, the stuffing in a cushion, duvet or pillow (7) |
| FILLING | Edible contents in the centre of a pie, sandwich or Victoria sponge; weft/woof; or, the stuffing in a cushion, duvet or pillow (7) |
| RESULT | Full contents in the remainder, and this is the upshot (6) |
| TULIP | Flower with full contents in the apex (5) |
| HEAVE | Exert pressure to lift contents in the avenue (5) |
| CELLARET | Wine bottles - sell contents in the cupboard (8) |
| OIL | Can contents in "The Wizard of Oz" |
| DOSSIERS | Secret files |
| CLASSIFIED | Secret files and a disc to be formatted (10) |
