| AXLES | Highway tolls may be based on the |
| BELFRY | Batty place where high tolls may be expected? |
| DECIMAL | It's claimed, falsely, to be based on the number ten (7) |
| ROBINSONCRUSOE | 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe thought to be based on the life of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (8,6) |
| ADRATES | Fees that may be based on cost-per-click |
| PASTADISH | It may be based on shells |
| PLACEBOEFFECT | Improvement that may be based on psychology instead of medicine |
| ONTHEMAKE | Shopper's choice may be based thus, having date in mind? |
| FARCICAL | Racial disturbances in the football club initially appear to be based on hollow formality (8) |
| CHERRYRIPE | Song with lyrics by the poet Robert Herrick, thought to be based on a street food seller’s cry |
| OWLS | Birds of the night whose name in question is thought to be based on an imitation of their howling call (4) |
| DOUBLEENTENDRE | Nice cryptics might be based on this? |
| EMPIRICAL | Claim pier collapsing could be based on practical experience (9) |
| EMOTIONAL | Ale drunk, then proposal claimed to be based on feelings (9) |
| APRIORI | A priory said to be based on theory (1,6) |
| KANE | Title film character thought to be based on Hearst |
| ANIME | Cartoon that might be based on manga |
| TALKATIVE | What Alan Carr must be, based on his nickname |
| DEFOE | Adventure novelist whose story Robinson Crusoe is said to be based on shipwrecked sailor Alexander Selkirk (5) |
| PELICAN | Bird associated with Elizabeth I, Louisiana and a pedestrian crossing, whose name, thought to be based on Greek for "axe", is believed to refer to its distinctive pouched beak (7) |
