| EASYTERMS | How we seem to stray into the Never-Never! (4,5) |
| ONUS | We seem to be bearing the weight of responsibility (4) |
| MINEFIELD | It's dangerous to stray into Bandit's domain (9) |
| PERRIER | Water to stray into coastal structure (7) |
| NORFOLKTERRIER | Dog, and not people, to stray into block of seats |
| DERRINGDO | Stray into fight, yielding quarter finally in heroic action (7-2) |
| DEADLYSIN | Yields and strays - into such transgression? (6,3) |
| GUNN | Who was born in Melbourne in 1870 and wrote The Little Black Princess (1905) and We of the Never-Never (1908) (4) |
| JEANIEGUNN | We of the Never Never author, Mrs ... ... (6,4) |
| HOP | There's nothing in the never-never to make a dance about (3) |
| LEAR | Shakespeare character who cries "Never, never, never, never, never!" |
| TERRITORIAL | Ill-prepared literati, or top reaches of the Never Never |
| HIREPURCHASE | In Peru, he's rich! A discovery in the never-never (4,8) |
| GAMESMANSHIP | Mismanages the never-never? It's psychological (12) |
| INSTALMENT | Payment on the never-never? (10) |
| ERNE | ... never - never! - hiding a seabird |
| HMS | "He's never known to quail at the fury of a gale; And he's never, never sick at sea!"; he's the captain in the G&S musical ... Pinafore (1,1,1) |
| MERRIER | Stray into mire, somehow more cheerful (7) |
| KERRY | Stray into outskirts of Killarney in Irish county (5) |
| DISSIPATION | When ale's introduced, Norfolk community stray into intemperance (11) |
