| POLAR | Directly opposite in tendency, held back by rural opinions (5) |
| VINYL | Records from New York kept by rural resident spilling beer (5) |
| ABEAM | Directly opposite Lincoln in the morning (5) |
| SMOCK | Loose overgarment traditionally worn by rural workers, Welsh shepherds, Cornish fishermen and some artists (5) |
| SHIRE | Quiet anger expressed by rural district |
| NADIR | Find the dinar, oddly, directly opposite the zenith (5) |
| AFFRIGHT | One group of politicians, conservative in tendency, terrify (8) |
| BEMUSEMENT | English exhibition centre, less refined in tendency for confusion (10) |
| INCRIMINATION | Suggesting one's wrong in tendency to lose length and invite boundary |
| NOISINESS | Loud quality one found in tendency to pry (9) |
| UPTREND | Put about with split in tendency that's on the rise (7) |
| LEANING | Shrinking wife leaves following the French in tendency (7) |
| PLEASANT | Nice lake enclosed by rural labourer |
| BURGLARY | Crime turned to by rural gang-leader (8) |
| VILLAGERS | Slave girl let loose by rural residents (9) |
| SMOCKS | Outer garments traditionally worn by rural workers (6) |
| NOSETONOSE | Informer facing informer, directly opposite (4,2,4) |
| ANTITHETICAL | It's directly opposite to the tail: one can't alter that (12) |
| PREMOLAR | Grinder dealing with motorway cracks directly opposite |
| FACETOFACE | Directly opposite one another (4,2,4) |
