| MINEDETECTOR | Instrument designed to find explosives destabilised mediocre tent (4,8) |
| MINEDETECTORS | Instruments designed to find buried explosive devices (4,9) |
| MONETARYUNIT | Around end of summer, note a mutiny that's destabilised euro, maybe (8,4) |
| LIEDETECTOR | Nick instrument designed to deter lice (3,8) |
| GYROSCOPE | Instrument designed to show the dynamics of rotating bodies (9) |
| ERGOMETER | Instrument designed to measure power |
| BUGLE | Instrument designed to annoy the French (5) |
| ETUDE | Short musical composition, typically for a solo instrument, designed to improve or demonstrate skill; French, 'study' (5) |
| SQUIB | In evacuated suburb, leave without time to find explosive |
| GELIGNITE | Turn on light to find explosive |
| PETARDS | Walk backwards across a road to find explosive devices |
| RADIOTELESCOPES | Instruments designed to intercept waves from space (5,10) |
| INVESTIGATIVE | Designed to find information or ascertain facts (13) |
| STUDS | What certain tools are designed to find |
| PSALTERY | Old instrument designed for rest and play (8) |
| BASEMENT | Sound of McCartney's instrument designed after muffling a cellar (8) |
| HARP | Instrument designed for cutting? Top shaved (4) |
| COMPASS | Name an instrument designed for determining directions (7) |
| MAGAZINESECTION | In which readers may find explosive articles? (8,7) |
| SUNDEW | Insectivorous bog plant destabilised dunes close to meadow (6) |
