| MIKELEIGH | Director resembling Tees, as Spooner would have it |
| ENTREATED | Opposing players step round vacated tee, as requested (9) |
| TOUCHDOWN | Landing somewhere in Holland, as Spooner would have it? |
| COCKROACH | Insect to render vehicle unsteady, as Spooner would have it |
| TIGHTKNIT | Harmonious noble fool, as Spooner would have it |
| DITCHWATER | What one of the children, as Spooner would have it, is very dull? |
| BARRYMORES | Theatrical people wed dull people, as Spooner would say (10) |
| CHICKPEAS | Choose diary product, as Spooner would say, or vegetables? (9) |
| FRYINGPANS | As Spooner would say, nosy devotee's cookware (6,4) |
| WALTER | Dreamer's island funny, as Spooner would say (6,5) |
| BAREHEADED | As Spooner would say, hair fixed without hat |
| BOARSHEAD | Frost's resting place, as Spooner would say (5,4) 57, |
| BREADLINE | People getting free food, slugs and salty water, as Spooner would say (9) |
| FEAT | As Fate would have it, it's quite an achievement (4) |
| WEAKSPOT | Say what Spooner would say is a handicap (4,4) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | Spooner would give ultimate cad a shiner (10) |
| LOOKHERE | I say "Pirate king" like Spooner would |
| DEEPEN | Spooner would urinate on the study and become more profound (6) |
| AHOLEINONE | Teed off with the driver that hit it, as luck would have it? (1,4,2,3) |
| LUCKOFTHEDRAW | As fate would have it, it determines line-up at the start (4,2,3,4) |
