| PADTHAI | Home to secure, said a dish (3,4) |
| STARTED | Established, one said, a right to enter (7) |
| MENCKEN | Who said "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier" |
| ATEINTO | Depleted number, said a fan of... (3,4) |
| ISHMAEL | Outcast; he said a little first (7) |
| ARSENAL | Weapons causing fires, said a man (7) |
| WANDERS | Strolls around Flushing Meadows end, said a higher-up (7) |
| TOSTADA | Food given the pancake treatment, said a girl (7) |
| SNEEZED | Said 'a-tishoo' |
| SLEIGHT | Said a little dexterity is required here (7) |
| EDIFIER | McGuire, shoot, said a man who makes things plain (7) |
| AFFRONT | Said "A mere outward show," which does offend (7) |
| AFFRAYS | Said a phrase inciting civil disturbances (7) |
| CHORALE | Pen, it's said, a hymn tune (7) |
| APRIORI | Said a priory comes from theoretical deduction (1,6) |
| ASSAULT | Said a substance like sodium nitrate is in battery |
| CROSSLY | How you said "A blasted multiplication sign?" (7) |
| AVERRED | Said a few had made mistakes (7) |
| SAMURAI | "An odd turnaround, in short" said a warrior |
| BIFOCAL | "Buy, folk," Al said, "A lens for seeing near and far" (7) |
