| PERSIANCAT | Dog, perhaps, describing cairn as strangely feline (7,3) |
| DECREASING | Falling off cairn's edge when rambling |
| PIKESTONES | The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire |
| INFRASONIC | Low frequency of cairns in wild (10) |
| AGRONOMICS | Cairns, Mogo, neither right for agricultural science (10) |
| NATURALISED | Looking as nature intended, perhaps describing bulbs growing in a lawn (11) |
| ENERGETIC | In Greece, perhaps, describing Thessaly's capital as lively (9) |
| FORESAW | Gold held by few, as strangely predicted |
| SESTINA | Inset as strangely structured poem of 39 lines (7) |
| REDDENED | Blushed as strangely underdressed members left USSR |
| ANAESTHESIA | Hate anise as, strangely, it produces a numbing effect |
| SAPPHIRE | Stone - rock perhaps describing one (8) |
| ADRENAL | A doctor with elan, perhaps, describing a gland (7) |
| ARMADILLO | Animal ___ mallard perhaps describing one with "duck"! (9) |
| SANANDAJ | Anna's short adjective perhaps describing Kurdistan capital (8) |
| LIKE | Perhaps describing bolts no longer stuck fast? (4,7,9) |
| GREASED | Perhaps describing bolts no longer stuck fast? (4,7,9) |
| LIGHTNING | Perhaps describing bolts no longer stuck fast? (4,7,9) |
| BOGUS | Perhaps describing bill of goods under suspicion at first? |
| SEDUCER | Wise man perhaps describing French duke's wolf (7) |
