| PLINKING | In Portugal's capital we're making connections to unofficial airgunning (8) |
| UPLINKS | Metallic ringing sound stops American making connections to satellite |
| KANGAROOCOURT | Mob member apprehended, it's said, leading to unofficial trial (8,5) |
| ATLANTIS | Never thought Incan capitals were included in maps of a lost continent (8) |
| LIBERIA | Hot country, though not if capital were different? |
| UNCIAL | Type of script with rounded letters, from which modern capitals were derived |
| OPERATOR | Job that's all about making connections |
| EQUATION | Quiet on a train for one of those making connection from mathematical class (8) |
| HITCHING | Land an uppercut, good making connection |
| NICETIES | Fine points of connections to Riviera resort? (8) |
| ROSSLARE | Irish ferry town with connections to Fishguard (8) |
| NUNEATON | Town noted for its connections to George Eliot, who was born locally on the Arbury Estate and drew inspiration from the area for her novels (8) |
| NAMEDROP | Brag about connections to get kinky porn made (4-4) |
| LINKEDTO | Having connections to Kindle novel (6,2) |
| CARRADIO | One with connections to traveling speakers? |
| NETWORKS | Makes connections to bag job at top school |
| LOGCABIN | Record picked up from airport, for example, by fashionable homely type with connections to the Woods |
| SOCIALCIRCLE | Group of people making connections ... and a hint to the round phrase starting in square |
| WIRE | "The ___" (show that people were making their whole personality long before anyone was making "Mad Men" their whole personality) |
| TIEROD | Editor, getting drunk in bar making connections (3,3) |
