| WOEISME | I'm dismayed - we open in summer in only half the places |
| SLUMS | In Scotland, chimney in only half the mess of wretched housing (5) |
| VERONA | Second stop in the Broadway song "We Open in Venice" |
| LOTTERY | Draw animal, filling in only half |
| MEET | "Bittersweet Symphony," the Verve: "I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down / You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins..." (4) |
| GRANGES | Are shortly to be in the river for the places in the country (7) |
| EXCITE | Get hot in "91 in summer in Paris (6) |
| MERINO | Animal found in summer, in open fields (6) |
| ILIAD | The Odyssey is one of the places where the stories of the Trojan War appear. Name another by the same author. |
| MUNNINGS | Artist depicted in Summer in February noted for paintings of horses, sporting life and the English countryside such as My Wife, My Horse and Myself (8) |
| ESCALATE | Develop opera house in summer in Europe (8) |
| EMS | Characters repeatedly seen in summer in German city |
| INVERTEBRATE | Turn up underwear in summer in Paris, finding leech, say |
| MERINGUE | Confection found in summer in guesthouse (8) |
| ELITE | 51 in summer in France forming select group (5) |
| WHEATEAR | Bird is thing found in summer in English river (8) |
| RUSH | Be it a phoenix's ascent from the ashes, sunup as we open our eyes and lashes or bread dough's lift before it is baked and eaten with gnashes, it is an upward motion, sometimes with financial or aeria |
| RISE | Be it a phoenix's ascent from the ashes, sunup as we open our eyes and lashes or bread dough's lift before it is baked and eaten with gnashes, it is an upward motion, sometimes with financial or aeria |
| AOC | Rep. who said "We open doors so others can walk through them" |
| IDIOT | First of all, I'm dismayed: I'm ostensibly the fool |
