| DUDHOPE | Defective ambition in 28Ac in 13Ac (7) |
| TACKLES | Things made to lift or bring down in 28Ac (7) |
| MAINS | Utilities providers in the hands of the French, making 28Ac in 13Ac (5) |
| BROUGHTY | Book introduction unfinished, totally gutted 28Ac in 13Ac (8) |
| CLAYPOTTS | Tagines including last of apricot make 28Ac in 13Ac (9) |
| POWRIE | Jump to conclusions on gutless wonder that is 28Ac in 13Ac (6) |
| UNTHANK | Flaunt hankie's fragment in surreal city in 13Ac (7) |
| MELROSE | Brooks, say, staged a rebellion in 13Ac 10Ac in the 20Dn (7) |
| BOHEMIA | Stink produced by man with revolutionary ambition in old kingdom (7) |
| ASPIRES | Has ambition in playing a Greek character with resolution (7) |
| SURGEON | Ambition in boy to become a doctor (7) |
| MONTANA | Mike on time given a new source of ambition in U.S. state (7) |
| THOMSON | DC in 28Ac - war-torn city not coming back around (7) |
| VIKING | Endlessly give back, embracing family in 28Ac 5Dn (6) |
| IRISHSEA | Raise largest part of ship wrecked in 28Ac 5Dn (5,3) |
| FAIRISLE | Flower surrounded by leaf design in 28Ac pattern (4,4) |
| ACDC | Current characters in 28Ac (4) |
| TURKISH | and 28ac, King tucking into this rude, peculiar, insubstantial sweetmeat (7,7) |
| ARMBONE | 16Ac's 12Ac in 19Ac 22Dn in the 28Ac could be humorous, by the sound of it (3,4) |
| FREEZER | Where 28Ac 18Dn's product is kept. lacking in almost nothing (7) |
