| UPGRADING | Getting a better mobile phone and plan, trading an item in for a better model (9) |
| PHOENICIA | Mobile phone and chemical company once - one in Dido's homeland (9) |
| LAPTOP | Friend set up better mobile device (6) |
| NEOPHOBE | Traditionalist with mobile phone -- and gong (8) |
| PAINTTHETOWNRED | Party hard to find with mobile phone and Twitter |
| MARATHONS | 42.195 km runs - Yoel ran eight last year as Batman for the Bibas boys and plans on ten more this year. In this out, visibly taking a stand, he's already run three of the seven World Majors, he'll add |
| INANIMATE | An item in a lifeless form (9) |
| BLUEPRINT | Unhappy with picture and plan (9) |
| EUCLIDEAN | Solve clue and plan new sort of geometry (9) |
| MOBILEAPP | Software for your phone, and a clue to four other Across answers |
| PHILOMENA | ... lady organising phone and mail (9) |
| PUNCHLINE | Judy's old man is on the phone, and that's the end of the story (5,4) |
| TRADEDUP | Went for a better model |
| TRADESUP | Exchanges for a better model |
| OENOPHILE | Phone and lie about first old wine expert |
| SCALLYWAG | Rascal's loot including phone and money, ultimately |
| STRANGLED | Throttled vacuous separatist who used phone and little light |
| RINGFENCE | Phone and receiver clearly separate |
| CROWN | An item in the Tower of London; a stag's surroyals; part of a brilliant cut diamond; or, cap for a glass bottle (5) |
| BULB | From the Greek for "onion", a globular stem of a plant such as the aforesaid or the daffodil; or, an item in this shape, such as the rubber part of a pipette or bicycle horn (4) |
