| WATTLES | Hurdles to sobriety in Dylan Thomas's patch (7) |
| TANITATIKARAM | British singer-songwriter who achieved chart success with the singles Good Tradition and Twist in My Sobriety in 1988 (6.7) |
| LLAREGGUB | Village in Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood (9) |
| MORGAN | Organ, town organist in Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood (6) |
| LEMONADE | Get help, we hear, with the answer - it's conducive to sobriety |
| TEMPERANCE | Attitude of an established church to sobriety |
| SWANSEA | Dylan Thomas's birthplace (7) |
| RUBICON | Cross this hurdle to polish image (7) |
| DECORUM | Festive period, then over booze? That'll do for sobriety (7) |
| DRYNESS | Chide about Yankee essentially banal sobriety (7) |
| BELLAMY | Charlotte ___, actress who plays ashley thomas's widow Laurel in Emmerdale (7) |
| ELLIOTT | Henry Thomas's character in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (7) |
| TREASON | Thomas's initial motive for betrayal (7) |
| CLARITY | Sobriety |
| NODOUBT | Certainly a misrepresentation of Thomas's position? (2,5) |
| BIGHURT | White Sox great Frank Thomas's nickname, with "the" |
| CYNICAL | One description of doubting Thomas's clan, icy possibly |
| INDOUBT | Undecided, describing Thomas's expertise? (2,5) |
| WALES | Dylan Thomas's home |
| DONOTGOGENTLE | Dylan Thomas's appeal for final rage (2,3,2,6,4,4,4,5) |