| IGUANAS | I sang about you and a number of big lizards (7) |
| COLOSSI | Firm finds debt is current for a number of big figures (7) |
| SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL | "We were just talking about you!" and a hint to the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| CARDIGANS | Program I sang about in jackets |
| IGUANA | Genus of large lizards |
| REDGIANT | Any of a number of large, cool stars in a late phase of stellar evolution (3,5) |
| LINERS | I spotted a number of large sea vessels sailing around when I was on the seafront near Exmouth at first light (6) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| VANDYCK | Artist whose works include Self Portrait with a Sunflower, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart and a number of portraits of Charles I as his court painter (3,4) |
| TELFORD | Nicknamed the Colossus of Roads by Robert Southey, a builder of canals, churches, roads, aqueducts and a number of bridges including one spanning the Menai Strait (7) |
| JESUITS | Jokes about you and I being members of a religious order (7) |
| RAGWEED | Was furious about you and I getting the plant (7) |
| MUSICAL | False claim about you and me being tuneful (7) |
| TUBULAR | But it's about you and Larry starting to go on the Tube (7) |
| ENIGMAS | Me? I sang and had them puzzled (7) |
| MONITOR | There's a big lizard in the classroom! (7) |
| GUANACO | Big lizard with company for wild llama (7) |
| DONEGAL | Deny I sang out 'Yes!' (7) |
| GAINSAY | Deny I sang out "Yes!" (7) |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
