| ALLINTHEMIND | Imagined for everyone this is the best place to pick one's brains (3,2,3,4) |
| BISAN | Journalist who often starts posts with "Hi everyone, this is ___ from Gaza. I'm still alive" |
| CROSSROADS | One may have to pick one's way here (10) |
| MISANTHROPIST | I dislike everyone this arm points out (13) |
| LETSSLEEPINGTOGSLIE | Doesn't pick one's clothes up? |
| WEND | Pick (one's way through) |
| PROMISEDLAND | The best place to be for leopards - mind out! (8,4) |
| POLEPOSITION | North or South, it's the best place to start from (4,8) |
| INAGOODLIGHT | The best place to read under favourable circumstances (2,1,4,5) |
| TOPIC | It is about tone that is meant to pick one up (5) |
| CANDIDE | Source of the line "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" |
| INAROW | Back-to-back - is this the best place to get defensive? (2,1,3) |
| THEDREAMOFGERONTIUS | At the end of this choral work's autograph score, Elgar quoted words of Ruskin, starting "This is the best of me" |
| TROMSO | University city which is Norway's "gateway" to the Arctic; one of the best places to see the Northern Lights (6) |
| TOPOFTHECLASS | The best place to see blackboard with the best pupil (3,2,3,5) |
| VIEWPOINT | An opinion as to the best place to admire the scenery (9) |
| CAPITAL | Is the City the best place to raise funds? (7) |
| HAIRPIN | It could be used to pick one kind of lock or secure another |
| PLATONIC | Purely spiritual going round mountain, something to pick one up (8) |
| VOLTAIRESHEET | Pamphlet that claims this is the best of all possible worlds? |
