| PALPITATE | Friend, Greek character, joins gallery for pound (9) |
| PALPITATION | Friend, Greek character with faceless local office, has heart problem (11) |
| CHIVALRIC | Noble Greek character joins Valerie and Richard (9) |
| AMUSEMENT | A Greek character joins blokes in scheduled recreation |
| PLUTONIUM | Animated character joins miners' union, captivating one element (9) |
| ERNIEWISE | Bond character joins prudent straight man |
| BEAUGESTE | 1924 P C Wren novel whose title character joins the Foreign Legion |
| POTENTATE | Sum of money gets space at gallery for person of influence (9) |
| RETALIATE | Settles an old score in kind, pound for pound (9) |
| ORGANLOFT | Church gallery for a large keyboard instrument (5,4) |
| CANALETTO | Venetian painter whose View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto sold at auction for pound 18.6 million in 2005 (9) |
| CASHTERMS | No credit for pound, dollar or euro perhaps |
| AXIS | A Greek character joins southern alliance |
| GNOCCHI | Greek character joins top general eating new Italian dish |
| PIANO | Greek character joins American returning on musical instrument |
| ETAL | Greek character joins learner and others |
| COURGETTE | Firm desire to join gallery not displaying a vegetable (9) |
| ONPERMANENTLOAN | A gallery for ever indebted for works that are? (2,9,4) |
| EDENTATE | Sloth, say, ruined need to join gallery (8) |
| AZTEC | Every character joins the heartless Catholic empire (5) |