| TIPU | Give you a clue, you hear, for who'll be in Munster's clash of the ash! (4) |
| DROPAHINT | To give you a clue - most of the word coming back is to decorate around hotel (4,1,4) |
| CASTE | Announced who'll be in the play, in class |
| HERMAN | First name in Munster's? |
| TIPOFF | Minor row about petty officer: that gives you a clue (3-3) |
| HAGS | Gee Ash! What about the fish (4) |
| SAMARA | From Latin for "elm seed", a word for a winged key fruit or "helicopter" of the ash, maple or sycamore (6) |
| HARDWOOD | Wood of the ash or oak, for example (8) |
| PUMICE | The product of mountain ash! (6) |
| LAIR | Get set, you hear, for a hole in the earth! (4) |
| LUCK | See what you hear, for good or ill, if you believe in it. (4) |
| FIVE | Number of clues you need to use for the first step in finding the contest answer |
| HITS | It's the principle, you hear for any school of thought. (4) |
| KELP | Large brown seaweed, the ash of which is used as a source of iodine (4) |
| TREE | The ash that may be put in the boot (4) |
| OLEA | Genus of evergreen trees and shrubs to which the olives belong, related to the ash, privet, jasmine etc. (4) |
| KIWI | Clue you and I read out for apteryx |
| STUB | Counterfoil found in the ash-tray (4) |
| CORK | One of the closures in Munster (4) |
| JOHN | Gladiators host and ex-footballer who'll be Dancing On Ice (4,7) |
