| HIREDGUN | Got a job on Top Gear with a foreign type having a shot at celebrity for the money perhaps (5,3) |
| UNDERPRIVILEGED | Really poor organisation by the foreign type having special rights (15) |
| THINKINGCAP | Cogitation wear, in top gear, with a mind of its own? (8,3) |
| REDSTAR | Seeing this, get angry at celebrity for being associated with communism |
| WIG | Scold one for a cover-up job on top (3) |
| JAMESMAY | TV presenter and journalist best known for co-presenting Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond |
| DRESSESUP | Gets into Top Gear with minis on the increase (7,2) |
| SIGNEDIN | Got a job at a club that's popular and on arrival did this for receptionist (6,2) |
| HUMPBACK | House Un-American politician in favour of beastly type having a whale of a time (8) |
| WASHEDUP | At the end of one's resources, got a job in a kitchen (6-2) |
| APOSTATE | The turncoat, having got a job, didn't go hungry |
| STARGAZE | Look up through a lens at celebrity inspection (8) |
| FLINTOFF | Cricketer recovering from his motoring incident on Top Gear (7,8) |
| BACKHAND | Support worker having a shot (8) |
| COPYEDIT | Prepare to print codicil, mostly with type having being reset (4-4) |
| JAILBIRD | Robin Mountjoy is the first local type having conviction (8) |
| ROMANTIC | Fictitious type having nervous reaction (8) |
| LITERATI | Bookish types having some wine in Boston at lunchtime? (8) |
| MUGSHOTS | Gullible types having attempts at attractive photographs (8) |
| DUTCHMEN | Language from Gents produced by low, lying foreign types? (8) |
