| ROBBERBARON | In error ban mad Bob, mistaken for ruthless magnate |
| GENGHIS | German engineer: his first name stands for ruthless conqueror (7) |
| PROFITEERS | Free port is arranged for ruthless investors (10) |
| GESTAPO | Suggest a police force is covering for ruthless organisation |
| TAMIL | Indian lower-order batsmen mistaken for openers coming in |
| LOUISDOR | Old penny buried in our soil mistaken for foreign coin |
| CINNA | We've heard wrongdoer was mistaken for conspirator in Rome |
| FIELDMARSHAL | In flesh, Admiral mistaken for his military equivalent |
| MELTONMOWBRAY | Town memorably mistaken for one in the Midlands |
| SKINCANCER | Scar in neck mistaken for melanoma (4,6) |
| BREAKWATER | Grasping tail in dark, beware rat that's mistaken for mole (10) |
| LAMBDA | Bald man almost mistaken for character in Greek tragedy? |
| INHERITOR | One with anger up in north mistaken for successor (9) |
| PACKAGE | What the "P" in U.P.S. might be mistaken for |
| SCALEMODELS | Measles, mistaken for a cold in miniatures (5,6) |
| IOWA | It was mistaken for heaven in "Field of Dreams" |
| PORRINGER | Vessel in harbour, almost one that could be mistaken for another |
| SHORTHAND | Worker in spotty shirt mistaken for secretary (9,6) |
| TYPIST | Worker in spotty shirt mistaken for secretary (9,6) |
| SHAMAN | At first this small odd-looking man, who was seen wandering around in Churchend, was mistaken for some kind of mystical healer (6) |
