| SPOOF | In which old government department actions sent up? |
| FORUM | Where to meet old government department following convention? No! |
| BEOFF | Regressive old government department cutting month's leave |
| REIGN | Old government department escaping from external rule |
| ILIAD | Tale in which old Greeks kill wizards regularly (5) |
| WRONG | Wife men sent up? No good and immoral! (5) |
| DOGGO | Hidden party limiting old Government repeatedly (5) |
| BOREDOFTRADE | Old government department, weary of discussion, relocated to Defra (5,2,5) |
| BOARDOFTRADE | Old government department, weary of discussion, relocated to Defra (5,2,5) |
| EXTRA | ... more of which old, almost entirely conventional (5) |
| WOLFE | General knowledge's core to which old fellow regularly contributes? (5) |
| WARRANTOFFICER | Old government department right to lock up shouting sergeant-major? (7,7) |
| BABEL | Which Old Testament tower is meant to be the source of the world's languages? (5) |
| DODGE | Device by which old magistrate implicates daughter |
| PASTA | Food with which old man gains a stone |
| FOREST | Break with old government department that has branches everywhere |
| STPATRICKSDAY | Occasion of visit in which old man takes in daughter |
| MAGENTA | One of the 16 1 5 in which old woman seduces a man |
| GRAECOROMAN | Appalling arrogance, in which old Frenchman is showing classical influence (6-5) |
| PALIMPSEST | Manuscript in which old writing was effaced to make room for new in the medieval art of recycling (10) |
