| DOWNTHEDRAIN | How the cat burglar got away perhaps over the border with most of them to escape (4,3,5) |
| FOOTSTHEBILL | Covers all the costs of soft marshal tackling order bringing most of them to account (5,3,4) |
| CLEANAWAY | How the burglar got, leaving his victim to do so? (5,4) |
| SHOWSUP | How the cat stands outside when it arrives (5,2) |
| YEABIG | Size of the one that got away, perhaps |
| UNSAID | Like words to the one who got away, perhaps |
| FLIPSIDE | A turn over the border with the other half (4,4) |
| MEGRIM | Margaret going over the border with a headache (6) |
| PETTYCRIME | That of the cat burglar? (5,5) |
| ROB | Act the cat burglar |
| PLAYSTHEGAME | Goes along with everything, as is in the line-up with most of them ready for action (5,3,4) |
| CUTONESTEETH | Shady types in version of the film take drugs - half of them to gain experience (3,3'1,5) |
| YCHROMOSOMES | One of them to a cell is the norm among monks (1-11) |
| PREPAREACASE | Concoct a story for one's time up in front of the judge or arrange things for a long stretch away perhaps (7,1,4) |
| MINIATURISTS | Don't expect any of them to give you the bigger picture |
| SHOWONESFACE | Succeeded blocking trainers, perhaps, over challenge to make an appearance (4,4,4) |
| TAKESTHEBLAME | Confesses to father perhaps, the vampire slayers lost the head with most of them getting criticism (5,3,5) |
| GUSH | A rapid effusion or flow of water; or a flood of sentimental tears, perhaps over the birth of a son or daughter (4) |
| PLAYTHEPONIES | Back on the theatre with most of them in the stalls (4,3,6) |
| THROWINTHETOWEL | Give up soft furnishing popular with most of them spread on a beach (5,2,3,5) |
