| MONKEY | In capital, king is with girl having right tool (6,6) |
| WRENCH | In capital, king is with girl having right tool (6,6) |
| TOKYO | Capital king invested in play - 26 to begin with |
| ELOPE | Run off with girl, having divorced writer |
| SATIRISTS | Authors rested with girl, having crossed street (9) |
| ONESIDEDNESS | Leinster perhaps at German address send back skinhead for having right-handed bias (3-9) |
| DERISIVE | Scornful king is with four in river |
| RISQUE | Bawdy king is with queen, English (6) |
| KISS | King is, with son, a soft touch (4) |
| KIDS | King is with one daughter's children (4) |
| TROWEL | Open drier with right tool (6) |
| SPANNER | Odds against girl finding right tool for gripping and turning (7) |
| SHARPENER | Stake around enclosure with right tool to make points |
| EQUIPPED | Sally found in deep trouble gets ready with right tools (8) |
| TRAWL | Model right tool to fish (5) |
| TINOPENER | After short time at home, a single person takes hold of drill - right tool? |
| HAMMER | Give ham to me on the right tool (6) |
| SOLDERINGIRON | Soldiering on, I moved on a bit, grabbing right tool (9,4) |
| STRIPPER | Small truck carrying right tool for decorator (8) |
| OAR | Nothing on a right tool for rowers |
