| ESTRANGE | Drive apart as ten gears clash (8) |
| SERGEANT | Police officer wanting ten gears, possibly (8) |
| ADOZENOF | 12 as 14 or 12 as 10? (3,2,3,3,4,1,5,2,3,5) |
| ADHERENT | Notice the fellow getting torn apart as a partisan (8) |
| HALLOWED | Set apart as sacred; holy, revered (8) |
| WENTSOUR | Fell apart, as a deal |
| JAKARTA | City of ten million that's sinking as much as ten inches a year |
| DIME | ...as much as ten cents to a dozen, they say! (4) |
| CARBARYLS | Something to drive apart from rise of insidious insecticides |
| THIRTY | Quantity or amount that is three times as big as ten (6) |
| BREAKUP | Drive apart |
| INAPTNESS | The unsuitability of spin, as Ten devises it (9) |
| PHILATELIC | As ten I chill out, concerned with hobby |
| ELEVEN | As ten is under twelve's close and fifty's over! |
| HASTENS | Speeds up in speech, as ten strikes (7) |
| CASTANETS | Actors performed as ten click with dancers (9) |
| ENTERED | Went in as ten deer went out (7) |
| ENTRAIN | Get on board as ten shot bucket down (7) |
| ONTENTERHOOKS | In suspense as ten tenors' performance covered catchy phrase (2,11) |
| SEXTON | He can ring the changes, as ten, in attack (6) |
