| READYCASH | Earned as the result of a somewhat shady race (5,4) |
| PENUMBRAL | Burn ample rubbish, somewhat shady (9) |
| ORANGISH | Somewhat shady leader in Africa into horsing around (8) |
| TRIALOGUE | Hearing nothing, guest loses way as the result of a crossed line, perhaps (9) |
| PUSSYFOOT | Sit on the fence as the result of an infected heel? |
| HEARTLESS | Callous as the result of a transplant rejection? (9) |
| FREEMASON | Member of a somewhat secretive order |
| EASTEREGG | Frivolous unexpected functionality in computer applications, such as the result of a Google search for "Bletchley Park" |
| FRESHBLOW | Another setback as the result of stiff breeze? (5,4) |
| WARBRIDE | The wife of a soldier met as the result of a posting during hostilities (3,5) |
| HAGGARD | Author whose bestselling novel King Solomon's Mines was published as the result of a five-shilling wager with his brother that he could write a story as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Islan |
| FLOTSAM | Maritime debris caused as the result of a shipwreck as opposed to items voluntarily cast into the se |
| AURORA | From the Latin meaning "dawn", a phenomenon caused as the result of escaped charged particles from the solar wind colliding with atoms in Earth's magnetosphere (6) |
| SPOT | A dark planet-sized area in the Sun's photosphere as the result of a localised fall in temperature to around 4,000K, some 3,700 degrees C (4) |
| BLOOMER | Produce a flower as the result of a stupid mistake? (7) |
| IMPACT | As the result of a clash, I'm wanting a treaty (6) |
| CLEMENS | One of his seven Cy Young Awards was earned as a Yankee |
| REALM | The kingdom of a somewhat surreal monarch (5) |
| LEAD | A deal of a somewhat heavy nature? (4) |
| BOD | Dad ___ (physique of a somewhat out-of-shape guy) |
