| NORMALISE | Did a girl have to lie about leading seaman to set things in order? (9) |
| TABULATES | Did a stable turn out, at the end, to put things in order? (9) |
| ANNUL | Might a girl have to turn left to put an end to things? (5) |
| SHEEN | Did a girl have two ways to display lustre (5) |
| IMPEL | Apply motivation an MP may have to lie about (5) |
| STIMULATE | Motivate a leading seaman to get to ultimate outcome (9) |
| ASCERTAIN | Establish the role of a leading seaman, to be sure (9) |
| DRESS | Some doctors have a few additives to set things in order (5) |
| ARRANGE | The sun-god returns with the scope to set things in order (7) |
| REDDEER | Set things in order for a runner, right away, with a common animal (3,4) |
| NESTA | Does a little girl have to go inside, to be honest, again? (5) |
| GRADE | Did the head girl have to read about her assessment? (5) |
| ABERDEEN | Want soldiers to come back with leading seaman to port (8) |
| REGIL | Two men and a girl have just moved into our small village near Chew Stoke (5) |
| REDRESSED | Has to get a change of clothes in order to set things right (9) |
| RIGMAROLE | Did a girl get more upset? Nonsense (9) |
| PANATELLA | For dad, the boy and girl have a cigar (9) |
| PYROMANIA | A compulsive desire to set things on fire (9) |
| DETONATED | Old-fashioned characters surrounded school to set things off (9) |
| TURNSOVER | Final performers, at some stage, had to set things the other way up (5,4) |