| ETHEREAL | Extraterrestrial and the boy-very spacey (8) |
| ETCETERA | Create confusion after extraterrestrial, and the others (8) |
| ETHEREALLY | E.T. precedes the boy very spacily (10) |
| WILLIAMS | John -; composer who wrote the scores for films including Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial and Schindler's List (8) |
| PLANET | Design extraterrestrial and his home (6) |
| GLADSOME | Good! The writer keeps boy very happy (8) |
| OBSOLETE | Let in old boy, very English in old hat (8) |
| DISOBEYS | Defies old boy very regularly in Norfolk town (8) |
| IRONCLAD | Press charges at first - boy's very well defended? |
| APPLAUDS | This cheers a priest and the boys when they're around you (8) |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| GUEST | Germaine, author of the books The Whole Woman and The Boy (5) |
| GREER | Germaine, author of the books The Whole Woman and The Boy (5) |
| RUARK | Sporting columnist who wrote "The Old Man and the Boy" |
| DAWNED | The girl and the boy started together |
| BARROW | Was such a boy very pushy when delivering the goods? (6) |
| OBESE | See waddling after the old boy: very fat (5) |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| LOOKERSON | They watch "Beauty and the Boy" |
| OBEYED | Dee and the boy followed orders (6) |
