| FABRIC | Francis Bacon dismisses canons cut to pieces by the man of the cloth (6) |
| ROYALS | Reading old review cut to pieces by that lot from The Palace (6) |
| WARSAW | City cut to pieces by conflict (6) |
| MARTIN | Bird trying to keep a low profile when interrupted by the man of 18 (6,6,4) |
| BUSINESSSUITS | Anonymous corporate figures behind firm stitched up by the man of the cloth for those in office (8,5) |
| TARTAN | Imagines leaving Tasmanian Tiger in Scotland in the hands of the man of the cloth (6) |
| RASHAD | Who won the man of the match award in Bangladesh's win over Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup? (6,7) |
| INGLIS | Which Aussie wicketkeeper won the man of the match award for PBKS in the last league game against Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025? (6) |
| HARVEY | Physician to James I, Charles I and Francis Bacon whose landmark book De Motu Cordis published in 1628 describes his discovery of the human blood circulation system (6) |
| DEVOUR | 'It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would ___' (Francis Bacon Essays (1625) |
| BOLERO | Orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel; premiered in 1928 (6) |
| ARTIST | Shakespeare's to be second person, first could be Francis Bacon (6) |
| IGNITE | Catch one grandmaster's foremost chess piece by the ear |
| TREND | An inclination to tear to pieces by the end of the fight (5) |
| SLICED | Toboggan circling ice getting cut, cut to pieces (6) |
| ESSAYS | Francis Bacon and Ralph Waldo Emerson are well known writers of these short compositions |
| AUBREY | Antiquarian whose Brief Lives describes figures including Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Halley (6) |
| SLEIGH | Sledge cut to pieces, we hear (6) |
| CHOPUP | Dance performed in competition is cut to pieces (4,2) |
| CONTROL | Regulation of company torn to pieces by the Left (7) |
