| NEEDY | Deny rambling about European craving attention (5) |
| HIKER | One rambling about old president in time |
| HACKNEYED | Old bear craving attention, taking its termination to heart (9) |
| NEEDILY | As if craving attention |
| EGOMANIAC | Say, I am primarily obsessive, narcissistic, craving attention desperately (9) |
| CUTTOTHECHASE | Stop rambling about baby cheetahs frolicking around, following you noisily (3,2,3,5) |
| WORKSTUDY | It helps to identify most efficient way of doing something like rambling about smuggled tusk (4,5) |
| BOLERO | The French boor's rambling about a jacket (6) |
| INDIRECT | Rambling about getting put in charge (8) |
| IMPROVING | One rambling about politician being on the up and up |
| NAUTICAL | A lunatic rambling about sailors |
| FIRSTLADY | FT's daily rambling about Republican president's wife |
| AFRICA | ... swapping sun initially for cold, rambling about continent (6) |
| ETHIOPIA | English welcome in patio after rambling about country (8) |
| LOATHING | Complete abhorrence of Goliath rambling about final confrontation (8) |
| UNBRIDLED | Stupid blunder, rambling about one head of department lacking restraint (9) |
| OREGON | Go on rambling about, in a state (6) |
| RADIATOR | Triad (or a substitute) rambling about a heater (8) |
| TIGRESS | A passionate woman, she abandoned sightseers rambling about... |
| PRECIOUSSTONES | Poetess cousin rambling about queen's diamonds perhaps (8,6) |