| ONTENTERHOOKS | In suspense as ten tenors' performance covered catchy phrase (2,11) |
| ONPINSANDNEEDLES | In suspense, as in a tailor shop? |
| AGOG | In suspense as a horse eats nothing (4) |
| JAKARTA | City of ten million that's sinking as much as ten inches a year |
| SLOGAN | It may strike one as a catchy phrase |
| SOUNDBITE | Brief catchy phrase in Spooner's dance scene (5,4) |
| SELFHELPBOOK | Will the writer, with catchy phrase, captivate confused pleb in 'improvement manual'? |
| HOOKS | Implements used in fishing; or, catchy phrases in pop songs (5) |
| SHORTENED | Outhouse accommodated tenor's performance, as contracted (9) |
| THIRTY | Quantity or amount that is three times as big as ten (6) |
| HASTENS | Speeds up in speech, as ten strikes (7) |
| ENTERED | Went in as ten deer went out (7) |
| DIME | ...as much as ten cents to a dozen, they say! (4) |
| SEXTON | He can ring the changes, as ten, in attack (6) |
| EASTEND | In trouble as ten detour into Cockney area (4,3) |
| BARITONE | Graduate, one in tenor performance, a singer (8) |
| OFFTHEHOOK | Averse to article with catchy phrase that's ready-made (3,3,4) |
| HOOK | Catchy phrase of pantomime villain (4) |
| BALLYHOO | British colleague with short catchy phrase creates commotion (8) |
| SLOGANS | Short catchy phrases used in advertising |
