| EBULLIENTLY | Full of beans, Blue Nile broadcast on telly, oddly (11) |
| LYTTELTON | Jazz trumpeter broadcast on telly, clutching both ends of trumpet (9) |
| INSTANTLY | I name Stanley on telly oddly at once (9) |
| LENIENTLY | Soviet leader consumes ecstasy on telly, oddly showing a liberal bent (9) |
| TRUMPETVINE | Climber's point about unusual exercises on telly |
| DISTINCTLY | Clearly record pocketing money in front of telly, oddly (10) |
| OBEDIENTLY | Womble advice - one telly oddly discarded in a well-trained fashion (10) |
| COSTLY | Commander's telly, oddly expensive |
| LITTLEBYLITTLE | Gradually turned on, hit coming up on telly, it is broadcast (6,2,6) |
| TANA | Largest lake of Ethiopia which is the source of the Blue nile River |
| KHARTOUM | Capital city at the junction of the Blue Nile and White Nile (8) |
| CHATTERBOX | Person going on about mad bloke on telly? (10) |
| DEPUTY | Sheriff once on telly in dereliction of duty, gawped (6,4) |
| HAVEIGOT | Broadcast e.g. favourite show on telly finally - this one? |
| EARTHY | Blue Planet back on telly (6) |
| COMPLETELY | Strictly Come Dancing, with first of personalities on telly (10) |
| SIGHTED | Seeing father on telly, moan in front of him (7) |
| ADVERT | One's screened nowadays on telly, carrying on in rotation (6) |
| BRUCE | James ___, Scottish explorer who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (5) |
| EBULLIENT | High-spirited time on Blue Nile trip |
