| PERSECUTES | Hounds essentially like fluffy bunnies, perhaps, heading for slaughterhouse (10) |
| CUTE | Like fluffy bunnies |
| SHARESOUT | Divides up spinach first for bunnies perhaps in the open (6,3) |
| PERSECUTE | Hound essentially lovable |
| ANGORAS | Fluffy bunnies |
| UNERRINGLY | Loose-jointed girl runner right away approaching style essentially like clockwork (10) |
| VONNEGUT | Author noted for Slaughterhouse Five, his 1969 novel containing the refrain And So It Goes (8) |
| RASPUTIN | Serbs essentially like president's mystical advisor (8) |
| ZADDIK | Last character: a divine, essentially like upright person in Jewish tradition (6) |
| APPLICANTS | Interviewees, perhaps, heading for Cleveland during tour of Spinal Tap (10) |
| CUTTLEFISH | Sea creature sliced itself, perhaps, heading for home (10) |
| REEQUIPPED | Rowan, perhaps, heading off, joked: "Ready to go again?" |
| CALAMITYJANE | Musical, a hit in London perhaps, heading for Edinburgh after a month |
| DECAMP | Leave before Christmas dinner perhaps, heading for pub (6) |
| EXPLODE | Retired copper perhaps, heading for exit, set off (7) |
| CUBEROOT | Two of eight, perhaps, heading for unrest in October after revolution (4,4) |
| BEACHGOER | Holidaymaker perhaps heading for basically every Indian state, we're told |
| XRATED | Adult film extra perhaps heading for disaster (1-5) |
| SEXOBJECTS | Bunnies, for example |
| HOPANDPRAY | What bunnies do when they see hawks? |
