| WROUGHTIRON | Decorative metal-work throwing our characters about (7-4) |
| ROADRAGE | Adore characters about bad paper, causing offence (4,4) |
| ABET | Connive with half our characters (4) |
| THECANTERBURY | ,14 21 work of treachery and unstable characters about Troy (3,10) |
| FIREDOG | One of a pair of decorative metal supports for wood burning (7) |
| WHEREFORE | The Beckham christening question: O father, O mother, were our characters injured? (9,3,4,5) |
| SOLDIERON | To keep going with the metal work, a second wind is essential (7,2) |
| ESCALOP | Key metal work in dish |
| TINFOIL | Fine metal work captivates trendy following |
| OROTUND | Don't our characters appear pompous! |
| COURTESAN | Lady of the night can set our characters reeling (9) |
| ALPHABET | Bath leap, in a way, shows all our characters (8) |
| OPTIN | Decide to join switch components in metal work |
| PANELBEATING | Longing to span river in Hamburg area? Metal work's needed |
| ALAN | "Our Character, Our Future" author Keyes |
| ABACI | Counters early characters about a source of illumination |
| DELVE | Probe order to eliminate some characters, about five (5) |
| ZAP | Attack extreme characters about propaganda at first (3) |
| WOOZY | Last characters about to attend court slightly drunk |
| PHILIPPIC | Cheek, weighing into Greek characters about diatribe |
