| BUBBLEANDSQUEAK | Effervescence and heads on ales noted for depth to go with what sounds like unoiled, fried leftovers! (6,3,6) |
| CREAKING | Sounding like unoiled hinge (8) |
| BUBBLE | Fried leftovers, ... %26 squeak |
| NOSSOB | ... and head on up to river (6) |
| ILIAD | Epic hip bones and head on diplodocus |
| BARBECUESTOPPER | Sting finger, say, and head on a hot potato? (8,7) |
| TAKELIBERTIES | To boldly go too far with what sounds like an order from a major employer with sights on Dublin suburb? (4,9) |
| MOUTHPIECE | Spokesman with what sounds like a message for pacifists? (10) |
| AYATOLLAH | Facetious policy-maker greeting Northern banker with what sounds like "Eh up" (9) |
| ALFALFA | Small boy with what sounds like top-quality fodder |
| HEARTSEASE | Viola showing courage with what sounds like kidnap |
| MEDDLE | Interfere with what sounds like a gong (6) |
| INSPECTOR | At home with what sounds like a phantom policeman (9) |
| SEEINGTO | Dealing with what sounds like double vision (6,2) |
| LETALONE | Much less rent with what sounds like an advance (3,5) |
| ATTACK | Offensive move with what sounds like a small sharp nail (6) |
| BATHOS | From the Greek for "depth" and introduced in its literary sense by Alexander Pope, an anticlimax or ludicrous descent from the sublime to the ridiculous in speech/writing (6) |
| BENTHOS | Word, from the Greek for "depths", for the assemblage of flora and fauna inhabiting the sea floor (7) |
| BUSSTOPS | Submarine rises to the top of the sea and heads for shelters at various stages (3,5) |
| TREE | Leaves home and heads for the river's edges close to shore (4) |
