| OLDAGEPENSIONER | Ideal person, eg getting on somehow? (3-3,9) |
| BEGRUDGE | Envy makes you move around, eg getting right (8) |
| UNSPORTSMANLIKE | A French skater limps on, somehow, competing poorly? |
| ONEWAYORANOTHER | Decision to be taken at a crossroads, somehow? (3,3,2,7) |
| THROWINTHETOWEL | How Rocky initially won the title somehow? He didn't do this! (5,2,3,5) |
| ENTENTECORDIALE | Cross-channel pact to end eternal ice somehow? (7,8) |
| BESTMAN | Ideal person for a wedding (4,3) |
| ONTHEGO | Being busy, he got on somehow (2,3,2) |
| GODSGIFT | Ideal person from gallery present |
| NATURAL | An ideal person to be spontaneous |
| PERFECT | Ideal person with fine city ties principally (7) |
| SPONSORED | Do press on somehow, given external funding |
| DEMONSTRATION | It's to voice protest and to stir me on somehow |
| LION | A sign I left on somehow (4) |
| IDES | Passes on somehow in old Roman times |
| SALESPERSON | Shop assistant presses ON, somehow obtaining a line (11) |
| TONGUES | Languages might help us get on, somehow (7) |
| BARNSTORMING | Travelling about speaking brings tram on somehow (12) |
| INACTION | Can I turn it on, somehow, to get it working? |
| CONTINUED | Carried on, somehow unnoticed (9) |
