| GOODBYEMRCHIPS | Groomed by eccentric carpenter in novella (7,2,5) |
| LEO | Stars turning up from time to time in novella (3) |
| ERA | Central characters in novella celebrating gay epoch |
| ELECTORAL | In novella, rot celebrity turned up about voting |
| MANE | It may be groomed by a groom |
| MANEATER | Tiger, say, better groomed by graduate |
| HEDGEROW | Dog here groomed by wife - it needs clipping regularly (8) |
| FRANKIE | She's being groomed by Hollyoaks' Rex Gallagher (7,7) |
| OSBORNE | She's being groomed by Hollyoaks' Rex Gallagher (7,7) |
| APRIL | Emmerdale teenager groomed by Ray Walters to now be a drug dealer (5,7) |
| WINDSOR | Emmerdale teenager groomed by Ray Walters to now be a drug dealer (5,7) |
| STEAK | Bearing used by carpenter in butcher's window (5) |
| ENTERINTO | Become involved when it's stored by carpenter in toolshed |
| ADAMBEDE | In which George Eliot novel is the protagonist a carpenter in Hayslope? (4,4) |
| ADAM | Forename of the carpenter in a novel described as "full of the breath of cows and scent of hay" by its author George Eliot (4) |
| WARE | Great Bed of ____, huge one built by a Hertfordshire carpenter in the late 16th century (4) |
| PLEASEMRPOSTMAN | Song by The Marvelettes covered by The Carpenters in 1975 (6,2,7) |
| KAREN | Carpenter in music |
| LAUREN | Daughter of Lou Carpenter in Neighbours (6,6) |
| CHIPPY | Carpenter in fast food joint (6) |
