| TAKEPART | Get engaged to Pole starting off and then break up (4,4) |
| OPART | Love, then break up? It's likely to be an illusion |
| ASBESTOS | Harmful material in Belgium found on street starting off and pocketed by fool (8) |
| LOPED | Leapt over pole starting descent (5) |
| BOILERFLUE | Waste pipe on fire, so break 'foible' rule? (6,4) |
| TUMBLE | Trip starting off and fall (6) |
| RODSTEIGER | Poles starting trek to mountain in the heat of the night! (3,7) |
| SNOBS | Class-conscious Poles starting to be obsequious? (5) |
| AFFIANCE | To get engaged to a female with funds one knight rides out |
| STREAKER | He takes off and then takes off |
| SWITCHON | Get engaged to sorceress taken in by family member (6,2) |
| COLLAPSE | Pass, momentarily fail, then break down totally |
| SHATTERS | Changes hats - has a rest then breaks off (8) |
| SCOTFREE | Do the English, Welsh and Irish get off so? (4-4) |
| LAZINESS | Sloth a zookeeper's beginning to put in chains, attached to pole (8) |
| CABLETIE | Used in the Method to secure line to pole (*celibate) (5,3) |
| CONCISAE | Cut off, so short and exact: sententiae ____ |
| NOTIONAL | Speculative one stopping off, so to speak, by a loch (8) |
| GETNASTY | Take the gloves off, so to speak |
| MERIDIAN | Line from pole to pole |
