| TYRANNY | Dictatorship managed to be taken in by reported Lilliputian |
| SOMETIMES | Now and again multiplied by reported total first (9) |
| SINCERE | Genuine error that's serious by reported visionary |
| SAYLITTLE | Asked to define "Lilliputian," be pithy (3,6) |
| LEEWAY | Room to move in Spooner's Lilliputian ballad (6) |
| BIGENDIAN | In Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputian party who cracked their eggs one way; they represent the Catholics in Swift's eyes (3-6) |
| BELITTLE | How Gulliver would talk down to Lilliputians... only for Brobdignad to do it to himself? (8) |
| PLY | Characters in dictatorship lying - is it something to do with being thick? (3) |
| BIGEND | Piece of engine favoured by Lilliputian rebels |
| ITSY | Lilliputian, to a little 'un |
| GKLESAL | We wouldn't be Lilliputian doctors |
| TIEDOWN | Get a commitment to secure Lilliputian visitor (3,4) |
| SHORT | Hearts enthralled by kind Lilliputian |
| TALLEST | The highest tower actually looked Lilliputian (extremely small), to founders |
| ABSOLUTISM | Submit Laos, perhaps, to dictatorship (10) |
| MOBRULE | Dictatorship of the proletariat, in a little while caramelised (3,4) |
| DEMOCRAT | Unpopular type in dictatorship designed ATM decor (8) |
| INDIA | I name heads of dictatorship in autocratic country (5) |
| DESPOTISM | Dictatorship - belief in a supreme being - takes notice (9) |
| OPPRESSED | Like those in a dictatorship, often |
