| THOUGHTS | Ideas, however, tactless in the extreme |
| LASTACT | Little Ella's tactless in the final part of the play (4,3) |
| THOUGHTREAD | Interpret ideas, however ahead of the pace |
| INDISCREETLY | So tactless in recording film in bank |
| FAUXPAS | Fake father, I hear, is tactless in France |
| THOUGHT | Idea, however, ending in draft |
| ONLYATHOUGHTBUT | "Feel free to dismiss this idea - however ..." |
| ARABIAN | The world's largest peninsula. Located in the extreme southwestern corner of Asia, it is bounded by the Red Sea, the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden. (7) |
| DICTIONARIES | In a manner of a speaking, part of the horoscope in publications that are wordy perhaps in the extreme (12) |
| CHILLIEST | Cold in the extreme? Cold and peaky in the extreme! (9) |
| POOREST | Penniless in the extreme -- money from abroad's in the mail (7) |
| YUMA | Part of North America's Sonoran Desert. It lies south of the Gila River and east of the Colorado River in the extreme southwestern corner of Arizona. |
| REUNION | Island dealing in euro, southern in the extreme |
| TEENSIEST | Petty in the extreme? That is the way with adolescents |
| TALLEST | Everything in trial is unbelievable in the extreme |
| POLITEST | Civil in the extreme, fired European in job (8) |
| STERNEST | Back in Paris is becoming rigorous in the extreme (8) |
| SMUTTY | Silly in the extreme dressing dog in blue (6) |
| INTENSE | I left out the nineties, confused in the extreme (7) |
| EGYPTIAN | Cleopatra was girly in the extreme in brief fancy panties |