| HEATER | Energy in earth damaged by the sun perhaps (6) |
| PALE | Stake blanched by the sun, perhaps |
| ROKEBY | The - Venus, painting by Diego Velazquez damaged by the suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 (6) |
| BASKER | Person lying in the sun, perhaps |
| SHINER | Black eye from the sun, perhaps (6) |
| REDTOP | Embarrassed-looking head in The Sun perhaps |
| TOOTAN | Overly exposed to the sun, perhaps |
| TANNER | Old coin for The Sun perhaps? |
| NETTLE | Tent damaged by the French plant (6) |
| STARVE | Sun, perhaps, going down on a day of celebration fast? (6) |
| REDASA | Arrested a slob, out of control, having had too much sun perhaps (3,2,1,7) |
| TWILIGHT | At the end of the day, heads for two weeks in the sun perhaps? (8) |
| TABLOID | Look into a proposal by model in the Sun, perhaps (7) |
| GRAFSPEE | German battleship scuttled by its captain after being damaged by the British in the South Atlantic in 1939 (4,4) |
| DRIES | Lies in the sun, perhaps |
| GETATAN | Lie in the sun, perhaps |
| DRY | Sit in the sun, perhaps |
| HIGH | and 9 and 10: Self-important -- like the Sun, perhaps? (4,3,6) |
| UNDERACLOUD | Shut off from the Sun, perhaps, in disgrace |
| MASTHEAD | 'The Sun', perhaps insane carrying a Sun article (8) |
