| HEXANE | Former wife and a man running outside a compound (6) |
| AFFRAY | A couple of females and a man creating a disturbance (6) |
| ANNUAL | In the book, turn in a woman and a man (6) |
| IMPEDE | A policeman and a man that is out to obstruct (6) |
| DENISE | Charlie Sheen's former wife and reality TV star, _ Richards (6) |
| BARBER | Occupation of a Great Dictator's double and a Man Who Wasn't There (6) |
| ACHEBE | Chinua -; author of Things Fall Apart and A Man of the People (6) |
| ONEDGE | Nervous editor's gone running outside |
| GUNGHO | Gnu put up with hog running outside, excited (4-2) |
| MACAW | Scotsman with a ***wife and a bird (5) |
| OEDIPUS | His companion was a wife and a mother to him |
| MINOTAUR | A Cretan monster with a bull's head and a man's body in Greek mythology ( 8) |
| NEHEMIAH | One among special men, he, a husband and a man of God |
| LISTEDCOMPANY | Lazy, heartless, despotic man running a significant business (6,7) |
| MENTALHOSPITAL | Bedlam, perhaps, in a little shop man's running (6,8) |
| EXECUTE | Perform with former wife and sweetheart? Sweet! (7) |
| YOLANDE | Patrick Trueman's former wife and Minute Mart head honcho in Eastenders (7) |
| EXILE | Lie about your former wife and be banished for your trouble (5) |
| EXOBIOLOGY | Unusual life study of former wife and poor igloo boy |
| WANNABEES | Wife and a new catch make out on return: they dream of a new life (9) |
