| ONIT | Dealing with the matter |
| RELEVANT | Reveal in the Territory that which is connected with the matter in hand (8) |
| HANDLE | Deal with the matter of a name (6) |
| LEAVEITTOME | I"ll deal with the matter of a request for a bequest (5,2,2,2) |
| REGARDING | Concerned with the matter of cunningly putting dagger right in |
| GETONESHEADDOWN | Deal with the matter in hand, which is to have a sleep |
| CONTENT | Is happy with the matters in hand (7) |
| PILCHARD | With a curl of the lip, the cleaning lady starts dealing with the fish (8) |
| LAMENTATIONS | Book of the Old Testament preceded by the Book of Jeremiah dealing with the destruction of Jerusalem (12) |
| HANDLING | Dealing with the cards one has been dealt with the fish (8) |
| GEOLOGY | The science dealing with the physical structure of the earth (7) |
| ECOMMERCE | Sweetheart dealing with the buying and selling of drugs on the Infobahn perhaps (1-8) |
| CLOUDS | Nephology is the branch of meteorology dealing with the study of these rain-bearing atmospheric mass |
| ARTILLERY | The science dealing with the use of guns (9) |
| ICLAUDIUS | Novel by English writer Robert Graves dealing with the history of the Roman Empire from Julius Caesa |
| LORD | The ?, 1815 poem by Walter Scott dealing with the return of Robert Bruce to Scotland (4,2,3,5) |
| DENTISTRY | The art of dealing with the upper set , maybe (9) |
| OROGRAPHY | The branch of physical geography dealing with the formation and features of mountains (9) |
| PHARMACOLOGY | Branch of medicine dealing with the actions of drugs in the body (12) |
| OFTHEISLES | The -, 1815 poem by Walter Scott dealing with the return of Robert Bruce to Scotland (4,2,3,5) |
