| CATATONIC | Immobile Tom maybe needs a medicine |
| LAME | Weak, maybe needs a stick (4) |
| PUMPERNICKEL | Fireman maybe needs a few cents for bread (12) |
| CATAMARAN | Tom, maybe, a bloke securing a river boat |
| READYCOOKED | Decor okayed, perhaps, but maybe needs re-heating (5,6) |
| BEAM | Joist maybe needs replacing without central feature (4) |
| DRESDEN | Doctor maybe needs china to come from Meissen (7) |
| AMERICANO | Black resident of Martha's Vineyard maybe needs love (9) |
| COBALT | Firm with Latvian, maybe, needs hard metal (6) |
| SPOUSE | Husband maybe needs support after blowing top (6) |
| VERBOSE | Wordy US speaker, maybe, needs rev up (7) |
| ALI | Ringmaster maybe needs some halibut |
| FIREWORK | Rocket maybe needs industry to support launch |
| CATASTROPHE | Tom maybe has a fit of temper - explosive meltdown? |
| CATACOMB | Tom, maybe, and a crest found in burial chamber (8) |
| CHEAT | Tom maybe arresting that man, a swindler (5) |
| SCUBA | Young reporter in S Africa maybe needs it in dives (5) |
| ENDORSE | Maybe needs to get gold in to give it one's backing (7) |
| TACITUS | Historian Tom maybe returned suit when changed (7) |
| CATCH | Tom maybe taken to church as fellow hooked for matrimony? |
