| WALLABY | Fool running around All Black, as one does occasionally (7) |
| ERRATIC | Pest gets into rice, running around all over the place (7) |
| OILED | Doug Howlett described the 2016 All Blacks as a "well - - - machine" (5) |
| DETEST | Can't stand but does occasionally try (6) |
| DESCALE | As one does to a furry kettle (7) |
| DRIESUP | Turns off gas, as one does in kitchen after meal? |
| LIESLOW | Keeps oneself out of sight, as one does sleeping on a futon (4,3) |
| TARRIED | Tried to get around all right at first but dawdled (7) |
| LOOKSON | Has lions wandering around, all right, when one visits (5,2) |
| TALLIER | Row around all summer (7) |
| NUDISTS | Those who barely move around all day? |
| CLICHES | "As black as coal" and "as blind as a bat" |
| STYGIAN | It's black as hell where antsy GI creates mayhem (7) |
| TABASCO | Hot stuff black as wrapped in Mexican tortilla (7) |
| DARKEST | Kestrel filmed in Devon river, black as can be (7) |
| IMBIBE | I am fish, one ultimately to do as one does? |
| PLAYS | Trifles with one as one does at keyboard, perhaps (5) |
| SWEAT | You and I have sat around as one does in a sauna |
| REASONED | Performed brain operations in theatre, as one does |
| SEASONED | Experienced a bit of malaise - as one does |
