| EGERIA | Female adviser, say, backing Yorkshire runner |
| AIDE | Adviser, say |
| WHARFAGE | Yorkshire runner getting silver in dockside accommodation |
| URGE | Yorkshire runner catching golf drive |
| OUTHOUSE | Barn you once used to block Yorkshire runner |
| OUSE | Yorkshire runner (4) |
| TENURE | Note new Yorkshire runner's set time? (6) |
| AGONYAUNT | Female adviser (5,4) |
| FABERGE | Great queen, say, backing Russian goldsmith (7) |
| PROPRIETOR | Murdoch, say, backing cryptic 23 I submitted (10) |
| NEROLI | Sophia, say, backing one perfumer's product |
| LEDGE | Source of light say backing sort of shelf |
| ANALGESIA | Obsessive article is, say, backing pain relief |
| GEORGIAN | Former Soviet, say, backing one probing agency (8) |
| SUSPENDER | Hangman, say, backing American profligate |
| UMBRA | Say backing away from offence is a shadowy area (5) |
| VEGEBURGER | Change direction about food, say, backing something meat-free |
| GENETICISTS | Experts in heredity, say, backing extraordinary scientist (11) |
| WARFARE | Yorkshire runners heard fighting (7) |
| FLENSBERG | Following contact, say, backing food in German city in Schleswig-Holstein (9) |
