| TRIPLICATE | Go down and say something untrue about moggy in third copy (10) |
| LIEIN | Say something untrue at home to stay in bed longer (3-2) |
| EVOCATE | Seek to resurrect cry of Bacchae about moggy (7) |
| IRONY | Why follow 4 down and say what you don't mean? |
| CONDESCEND | Study how to go down and deign to do it (10) |
| ATONESPEAK | Reaching a turning point, make amends and say something (2,4,4) |
| SERVESTIME | Goes down and dishes up porridge (6,4) |
| CLOBBERING | Gear commonly used ? in third for regulative action of battery (10) |
| BELOWDECKS | Devil holds all the cards by a board in third class? (5,5) |
| COWCATCHER | Fellow spectator drinking in third-rate bar on train |
| REELECTION | For return of government, serious thought changes very little in third place |
| ADDLE | Go bad and say something more the French can follow (5) |
| LIBELS | Writes something untrue, knew it was untrue, and intended malice |
| OCCUR | Go down and get our first carbon copy inserted (5) |
| OBSERVE | See and say something about (7) |
| ORATE | Brought up estimated time of arrival? Run out and say something! (5) |
| TOPUTITMILDLY | Stop, essentially, and say something gently, at the very least |
| DROPACLANGER | Fail to hold a bell, maybe, and say something embarrassing (4,1,7) |
| UNSCATHED | Moggy in posh new outhouse, safe and sound |
| LOCAL | Where to go down and down (5) |
