| OTTERS | Head off the rotters! They're taking all the fish! (6) |
| OTTER | Head off that rotter! He's taking all the fish! |
| DEFINE | Explain that you can't see all the fish in the river (6) |
| HOTAIR | It's nonsense taking all the characters back to take a left out of Rialto towards hotel (3,3) |
| EVENTS | The First Lady's in the Territory where they're taking place |
| RETORT | Just the sort of a reply one would expect from such a rotter! (6) |
| CURATE | The rotter upset tea on a cleric! (6) |
| TETHER | Bond brought in to smite the rotters |
| BADEGG | Finding dickhead, say, in sack? He's a rotter! (3,3) |
| CADETS | The rotter finally gets apprentices |
| TARTAR | Traitor repeatedly turning tail, the rotter |
| DASTARDS | Main actor in Dad's Army - Army done away with? The rotters! (8) |
| UREDINIA | River racket one American's beginning? The rotters! (8) |
| SCHOOLFELLOW | All the fish dived with a fair amount of the flow coming from the educational centre (6,6) |
| CADS | Hundreds pocketed by accountants, the rotters! (4) |
| SLOBS | They throw saints out, the rotters! (5) |
| HEATING | Warming to hotel taking all the food perhaps? (7) |
| ARK | Bible story about taking all the animals on a big boat, Noah's ... (3) |
| COCACOLA | A nearby resident almost caught old Conservative doing u-turn, the rotter! (4-4) |
| BOOR | Sound displeased with a redhead, the rotter! (4) |