| AFINE | Film title with Mess or Madness |
| KIT | Word with mess or first-aid |
| GOLD | Matthew McConaughey film title, with or without a fool's prefix (4) |
| SUPERSIZE | 2004 documentary film title (with "Me") |
| MULL | Verb meaning to pulverise or crumble; to spice, sweeten and warm ale or wine; to ponder; or, as a noun, a bungle, mess or muddle; soft muslin used in bookbinding; or, a Scottish word for a promontory |
| RACK | From French for "axe", a dish of chopped cooked meat and potatoes, reheated with or without gravy/sauce; a jumble, mess or mixture; the # sign; or, from "fodder, hay, herbage", a short name for the re |
| SHAPE | Physical property of matter such as gas, liquid, plasma or solid; or, informally, a mess or shambles (5) |
| STATE | Physical property of matter such as gas, liquid, plasma or solid; or, informally, a mess or shambles (5) |
| PUD | Informal or short word for a sweet course or dish, such as apple pie, Eton mess or roly-poly (3) |
| OUR | CSNY or Madness hit "___ House" |
| ACCORD | AC/DC or Madness concert (6) |
| MANIA | Craze or madness (5) |
| INSANITY | Daftness of adopting son, or madness? (8) |
| SKA | Genre of The Specials or Madness (3) |
| INANITY | Silliness or madness spurning sun (7) |
| SYSTEMIC | City struggling with mess affecting all areas (8) |
| PRESENTARMS | Partner upset with mess: order needed |
| HASHEMITES | Arab aristocrats associating English tots with mess |
| LOOKINTO | Examine toilet with mess tin, OK? (4,4) |
| INTO | Examine toilet with mess tin, OK? (4,4) |
