| NONCONFORMIST | Dissenting criminal class is German, not French to begin with |
| RECEPTIONIST | Hotel employee, first class, is German |
| ENSIGNS | Officers with notices, in French to begin with |
| DECIPHER | Make out nothing of French to begin with (8) |
| DEFOE | English novelist - opponent of French to begin with |
| PRINCECONSORT | Royal spin in establishment with criminal class (6,7) |
| GOUT | German not at home to disease (4) |
| MANAGE | Cope with East German not getting rest? (6) |
| ECHT | Real German playwright, German, not British |
| DETER | German's not one to put off (5) |
| CONSORT | Mix with criminal class (7) |
| UNDERWORLD | It can be hell for the criminal class (10) |
| COSTADELSOL | Criminal class looted holiday place (5,3,3) |
| ICONOCLASM | Number 10 admits criminal class briefly behind firm destroying images (10) |
| FAGIN | He ran a novel criminal class (5) |
| PASCOE | The not so old bean, not French, runner (6) |
| NON | This is not French, whichever way you view it |
| QUICHE | In France, who gets behind cook (not French) offering French dish? (6) |
| SISTINE | Is German function about to refer to Pope Sixtus? (7) |
| RENEGING | Frenchman has drink, German not following suit (8) |
