| ELUCIDATE | Edit a clue somehow, and explain |
| FELUCCA | Fellow with a clue somehow grabs front of curved Egyptian boat (7) |
| ELUCIDATES | Edits a clue, perhaps, and makes it clear (10) |
| TOULOUSELAUTREC | A tortuous clue somehow about the Spanish painter |
| LYCEUM | My clue, somehow, for Aristotle's garden |
| EDUCABLE | Finish off puzzle with bad clue, somehow open to improvement |
| EXPOUND | Present and explain (a theory) |
| GETITACROSS | Solve the first clue - about time! - and explain the idea properly (3,2,6) |
| DEMYSTIFY | Disguise my fist with dye and explain! (9) |
| APERIETIS | You lot are going to open, show, and explain: explicabitis |
| SETTHESCENE | Put things on stage and explain the situation |
| INTERPRET | Bury hamster, say, across river - and explain |
| CLEARUP | Become brighter and explain (5,2) |
| ILLUMINATE | I shall mint UAE change and explain (10) |
| ANALYSE | Examine and explain |
| ELABORATE | Doctor able to speak and explain further (9) |
| SOCIALSURVEY | So I vary clues somehow for the census (6,6) |
| HUMMUS | Henry joins Mum somehow and you and me for a dip in the Eastern Mediterranean (6) |
| AMETHYST | Stay with them, somehow, and find a gemstone (8) |
| REACTIVATE | Treat a vice, somehow, and start again (10) |
