| GROUTED | Finished off the tiles and got rude perhaps (7) |
| TOURGUIDE | Cicerone: I got rude, unfortunately, crossing centre of Perugia (4,5) |
| VERMEER | Artist whose oil on canvas of a lady playing a virginal shows blueand-white Delft tiles and a painting of Cupid holding a playing card (7) |
| BATTENS | Sawn strips of wood used to provide a fixing for tiles and slates (7) |
| SHINGLE | Drunk perhaps alone, one on the tiles? (7) |
| MAHJONG | Shuffling the tiles in this Chinese board game is called 'the twittering of the sparrows' |
| ROOFTOP | Aiming at lower targets, last-minute online bidders are on the tiles (7,7) |
| SNIPERS | Aiming at lower targets, last-minute online bidders are on the tiles (7,7) |
| REPROOF | Criticism for salesman out on the tiles? (7) |
| OSTRAKA | Large otter booked with a right turn on the tiles (7) |
| CATNAPS | Rests before night on the tiles? (7) |
| TYMPANS | They may have a night on the tiles (7) |
| STARTLE | Surprise by taking the light to the tile I dropped (7) |
| THATSIT | Bird going round the tiles no more! (5,2) |
| TESSERA | Period novel heroine on the tile? (7) |
| TACTILE | Puss back on the tile - quite touching (7) |
| NONSLIP | Safer type of surface for areas around swimming pools or the tiles in bathrooms (3-4) |
| PAVE | Prepare the way to lay tiles and the like |
| INBADFORM | Rude, perhaps, when feeling off colour (2,3,4) |
| PIEDPIPER | A sequence of blows from him finished off the vermin |
