| SELFINDULGENT | Decadent principal in school: diminutive, pretty boring bloke? (4-9) |
| SIR | Principals in school ignored racist title (3) |
| BRIDGE | Awfully dry, boring bloke becomes a Manhattan landmark! (8,6) |
| BROOKLYN | Awfully dry, boring bloke becomes a Manhattan landmark! (8,6) |
| MENIAL | Boring blokes with information on aluminium (6) |
| THEFOURCOURTS | Half forgotten themes by quartet will be tried here by school principal in place by the Liffey |
| CONTORTIONIST | Principal in Canada, one entering Toronto, isn't bothered - twisted individual? (13) |
| HOHUM | Water's molecular structure? Um ... pretty boring (2-3) |
| BANAL | Ban on almost everything, that's pretty boring (5) |
| BLAH | Pretty boring |
| FORGOTTENMAN | Yesteryear's bloke? If Mandela's that, there's a crooked deal (9,3) |
| COMEDIAN | Taking in press and all, Tory shown as cracking bloke? |
| AMERICAN | A bloke embracing another bloke? Must be a foreigner (8) |
| WISEGUYS | YYYY blokes? Must be the mafia, so to speak (4,4) |
| NOBALL | Extra posh bloke? Quite (2-4) |
| CHAPERONE | Hesitation to go with bloke? Then get one! |
| NOBLE | Posh bloke? The French count, perhaps (5) |
| LAD | The leading lady is a young bloke? |
| EARTHMAN | What about cunning bloke? He's no alien (8) |
| ATONEMENT | Reconciled with blokes? Time for satisfaction (9) |
