| SLEUTH | Investigator the French thus thrashed outside |
| SLEUTHHOUND | Investigator the UN should get replaced |
| CHUBBYCHECKER | Husband cheating initially trapped by investigator, the old twister (6,7) |
| YANNMARTEL | Author of Life Of Pi, the 2002 Booker Prize winning novel (4,6) |
| LACED | Thrashed for having spiked the drink |
| BEATRIX | Queen of the Netherlands thrashed farceur (7) |
| UXORIAL | Our XI thrashed by almost all of the Dutch |
| MEPHISTOPHELES | Senior devil thrashed the hopeless imp |
| LATHERED | Outside that place see boy being thrashed (8) |
| BEAT | Relax, having thrashed all the others (2,2,4) |
| REST | Relax, having thrashed all the others (2,2,4) |
| BEATEN | Achieve the highest marks when being thrashed? (6) |
| ATTHECINEMA | Where to see The A-Team in colour, originally getting thrashed (2,3,6) |
| CIRCA | Channel Islands car thrashed about |
| TSAREVNA | Member of oppressive regime thrashed a servant (8) |
| BASTED | Sewed with loose stitches - moistened with fat juice - thrashed (6) |
| PASTED | Thrashed - glued (6) |
| FLAILED | Thrashed fellow left troubled (7) |
| CLAMMEDUP | Made no comment, getting thrashed in important match? (7,2) |
| NEURALGIA | Pain again with ruler, endlessly thrashed (9) |
