| SCIENTOLOGIST | Cruise perhaps to Italian capital with single cost being flexible |
| ROMEO | An amorous guy is in the Italian capital with love (5) |
| MICROMETER | Motorway from Croatian capital to Italian capital starts on elevated ridge - it's a measure of how Americans gauge it? (10) |
| DISCONTENTED | Not satisfied with intended cost being fluid |
| AROMA | To Italian capital for the perfume? |
| CROSSOUT | Blue-pencil our costs - being out of order (5,3) |
| PEPPERONI | Musical sergeant addicted to Italian capital's spicy food |
| MOOT | Cruise perhaps tipped to win Oscar? Doubtful (4) |
| CATACOMB | Cruise perhaps in carriage, carrying Bill to see burial site (8) |
| LITHE | Being flexible, put a match to high explosive |
| ELASTIC | The Spanish wine given to first of customers being flexible (7) |
| DOUBLEJOINTED | Having large drink at bar with journalist, being flexible |
| LISSOME | Almost lean to one side, a few being flexible (7) |
| COSTUMIER | He dresses Tom Cruise, perhaps (9) |
| GUIDEDMISSILE | Cruise perhaps, or 3? (6,7) |
| TOM | Cruise, perhaps, as far as Malta (3) |
| SKABAND | Entertainment on a Jamaican cruise, perhaps |
| MISSILE | Cruise, perhaps, miles off circling island (7) |
| DOCKED | Cut short ___ a cruise perhaps? (6) |
| BOREALIS | Highlights of an Arctic cruise perhaps? (6,8) |
