| ANDHARRIS | Grade has drains tangled with hairs in the 10Ac 9Dn (5,3,6) |
| LEWIS | Grade has drains tangled with hairs in the 10Ac 9Dn (5,3,6) |
| TARDINESS | Hardy character has drain moved for lack of punctuality (9) |
| SENSORY | Cells/hairs (in the cochlea) are set into vibrations/stimulated producing nerve impulses in the auditory nerve (7) |
| GRAZE | Broken skin gets white hairs in the ear? (5) |
| GRIMSBY | Forbidding one's tuppenceworth in the 10Ac 9Dn (7) |
| DESPAIR | Beer ran out in the 10Ac 9Dn (7) |
| GRIMSAY | Forbidding one's tuppenceworth in the 10Ac 9Dn (7) |
| VATERSAY | Join heartless authority and horribly starve in the 10Ac 9Dn (8) |
| BERNERA | Beer ran out in the 10Ac 9Dn (7) |
| NORTH | New Hampshire tourist adrift in the 10Ac 9Dn (5,4) |
| UIST | New Hampshire tourist adrift in the 10Ac 9Dn (5,4) |
| BARRA | Keep out leading pair of radicals in the 10Ac 9Dn (5) |
| BENBECULA | Ban clue? Be unpredictable in the 10Ac 9Dn (9) |
| SOFTFRUIT | P-plum, p-peach or p-pear grown in the 10Ac 16Dn? (4,5) |
| SPLINTER | A person who figuratively divides hairs in arguments; the opposite of a lumper in the world of taxonomic classification; or, a severe migraine (8) |
| BEDHEAD | Messy hair in the morning, and a hint to the tops of the theme answers |
| ROAN | Horse with main colour interspersed with hairs of another (4) |
| GOOSEFLESH | Rough, 'bumpy' condition of the skin with hairs erect from cold or fear (10) |
| RAMBUTAN | Tree of S.E. Asia that has bright red fruit covered with hairs (8) |
