| NITRICACID | Critic and I mixed caustic liquid (6,4) |
| PILAU | Paul and I mixed up a foreign dish (5) |
| UNHYGIENIC | Hung about, including year I mixed 'nice' and 'dirty' (10) |
| PRAIRIEDOG | A porridge I mixed up for rodent |
| DICTIONARY | Brewer's creation, say, a tonic I mixed in without water |
| ESCRITOIRE | Rectories I mixed up delivering desk (10) |
| BIPOLARITY | Libya port I mixed having state of having two extremes (10) |
| ORDINARILY | King leaves royal drink I mixed, as a rule (10) |
| RHAPSODIES | Pieces of music with sound of rap over doses I mixed (10) |
| HUMIDISTAT | It controls amount of moisture I mixed with mud, that is (10) |
| JOHNRUSKIN | 19th-century English art critic and social reformer whose works include Modern Painters and Unto this Last (4,6) |
| CRAIGRAINE | English critic and exponent of Martian poetry (5,5) |
| POLYESTER | Notice about caustic liquid, manmade stuff |
| LYE | Fully expected to drink caustic liquid |
| ACID | Caustic liquid in batteries |
| STRIPPER | Caustic liquid used to remove wall colour, eg: paint - |
| AAPHILLIPS | Which Australian critic and editor included the expression "cultural cringe" in the title of a 1950 |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic and TV presenter whose first book of autobiography was Unreliable Memoirs (5,5) |
| JOHNDRYDEN | English poet, critic and dramatist who became the first official Poet Laureate in 1668 (4,6) |
| UMBERTOECO | What Italian literary critic and semiotician wrote The Name of the Rose, a best-selling murder mystery? |
