| ODDSONFAVOURITE | Hot frontrunner in 8 across gets special treatment for roofless gite (4-2,9) |
| KILLERINSTINCTS | 8 across gets intuition from school ruthless to succeed (6,9) |
| MOTOR | Vehicle test for roofless car (5) |
| BLUEEYEDBOY | The child that gets special treatment was of Scandinavian descent? (4-4,3) |
| REDCARPET | North Yorkshire resort, favoured one, gets special treatment (3,6) |
| EAT | French art teacher at first gets special treatment (3) |
| PAYATTENTION | Take particular note when assistant to young leader gets special treatment |
| FACSIMILE | Image of frontrunner in Formula One - I'm supporting Lewis Hamilton essentially, note |
| WIN | It's what the frontrunner in a race is expected to do, dark horse notwithstanding |
| TROTTED | Frontrunner in triathlon went off and ran quite fast (7) |
| MUSICALS | US claims special treatment for Chicago and Oklahoma! (8) |
| VIP | Big shot who gets special treatment: Abbr. |
| PRIVATEPATIENT | Infantryman as casualty who gets special treatment |
| RESIDENT | Money paid by tenant across the Channel - someone in a gite, say |
| UGH | What saves frontrunner in government that's revolting |
| SILO | Oils requiring special treatment for storage (4) |
| STANDOFF | Special treatment for Twickenham's first 500 fans of Jonny Wilkinson? (5-3) |
| IGLOO | Back in cool gite? Cool, yes, but different lodgings! (5) |
| SELFCATERING | "France-gites": new organisation raking in pounds for such a holiday? |
| RETREATS | Perhaps gites in the Dordogne to be overrun with vermin (8) |
