| CARELESSTALK | Conversation after start of 18 across costs lives according to British wartime propaganda (8,4) |
| KHALAT | Sound of laughter in conversation after lifting ceremonial robe |
| PORTMANTEAUWORD | Brief conversation after case in Tanzania, for example (11,4) |
| TRAPEZE | Relax in conversation after gin in circus bar |
| CHURCHILLIAN | Like a British wartime leader |
| PRESSBUTTONS | At the start of 18 across, controls to energise someone's irritation (5,7) |
| PARTYMACHINE | They are planning to take power perhaps from those at the start of 18 across with driving force (5,7 |
| NORTHPOLE | That's where Santa Claus lives, according to children's stories (5,4) |
| CATS | Feline animals with nine lives according to a myth (4) |
| SELFEDUCATED | Did one's exercises on one's own at the start of 18 across - how informed is that? (4-8) |
| MAGPIE | Bird of ill omen, according to British superstition (6) |
| FOUGASSE | Provencal bread in the form of a rustic leaf; or, pen name of former Punch editor Cyril Kenneth Bird who designed "careless talk costs lives" war posters (8) |
| CARELESS | "... talk costs lives!" the British government warned in February, 1940 in its nation-wide anti-goss |
| TALK | "Careless ... costs lives!" the British government warned in February, 1940 in its nation-wide anti- |
| INHABIT | Live according to custom (7) |
| KEEPCALM | Start of a British wartime slogan |
| SCAPA | British wartime naval base in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, ___ Flow |
| UPNORTH | Where, according to British culture, it's "grim" |
| FIZZES | Word for something bubbly, effervescent or frothy; anything excellent, according to British slang, but a failure or fiasco in the Australian lexicon; or, a very fast cricket ball (6) |
| POISONGAS | Corrupt idle talk - it cost lives in wartime (6,3) |
