| GSUIT | Habit of one elevated as fool holding America up |
| PERSONAL | Location of one elevated hermit's collected announcements? |
| COLUMN | Location of one elevated hermit's collected announcements? |
| MEASURE | Only holding America up as a yardstick (7) |
| CASUAL | Informal, anti-Trump state holding America up (6) |
| NIGHTWEAR | Near rush to imbibe whiskey, that's habit of one retiring (9) |
| NIGHTDRESS | Habit of one going into retirement (10) |
| CUSTOMS | Habits of one government department (7) |
| UNSUITED | One's holding us up - that's inappropriate (8) |
| SUIT | Caged bird, perhaps, holding us up, 1940s' style (4,4) |
| ZOOT | Caged bird, perhaps, holding us up, 1940s' style (4,4) |
| UNASSURED | Diffident danseur in production's holding us up |
| SUSPENSE | State of uncertainty caused by southern coppers reportedly holding America (8) |
| NAIVE | After one's elevated one has to be ingenuous (5) |
| SIRE | Forebear of Queen one's elevated (4) |
| JERK | Heckle, dismissing one European king as fool (4) |
| GOOFF | Blow up as fool gets noisy (2,3) |
| TAKEINHAND | Discipline husband, as well as fool to start with |
| CLOSETED | Shut up the fool holding the tees out (8) |
| WALLABY | Fool holding a head of balloon animal |
