| NEARSIDE | Describing part of car raised unexpectedly in northeast |
| ABSTRACT | Contrary graduate taking street car, raised middle section which is purely theoretical |
| NOUVEAU | Part of speech briefly describing part of the Observer that's up-to-date? |
| COCHLEAR | Pass either side of church organ, describing part of same (8) |
| VELAR | A piece of oral evidence turns up describing part of mouth |
| LOBAR | See lawyers describing part of the ear (5) |
| ANDEAN | Article by University head describing part of South America |
| STETSON | Child impressed by odd treatise describing part of cowboy's apparel |
| ARID | Describing part of the Kalahari Desert (4) |
| TWICE | Note describing part of candle cut short on two occasions (5) |
| STAMEN | A good man had the last word, describing part of a plant (6) |
| PENALTYTRY | Writer to attempt to entertain half-cut casualty, describing part of rugby match |
| POETSCORNER | Proctor seen unexpectedly in part of Westminster Abbey |
| SALTONSEA | A saline lake, in the Colorado Desert of California, flooded unexpectedly in 1905-06 (6,3) |
| UNDERDONE | Awfully red on being found in nude, unexpectedly in raw! (9) |
| EASTERTIDE | Church festival I started unexpectedly in middle of week (10) |
| DIFFERENTIAL | Dead, and unexpectedly in afterlife? There's a measure of variation |
| AFRICA | RAF unexpectedly in charge of a huge land mass (6) |
| DAHLIA | Sir Galahad ditches rags unexpectedly in favour of brightly coloured flower |
| ALTERCOURSE | America and Cuba entered into reform to restore beginnings of links unexpectedly in about-turn (5,6) |
