| SIMPATICO | Is seventy per cent compatible, perhaps, or absolutely so |
| LORDHOWE | Which Australian tourist island is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is 70 per cent national park? (4,4) |
| OCEAN | Approximately seventy per cent of the Earth's surface |
| CHAIN | Seventy per cent of characters killed off by popular series (5) |
| DERIGUERR | What's required about Eastern clothing at Biblical city, absolutely so (2,7) |
| ICEAGE | One from church is seventy years old when hell freezes over we presume (3,3) |
| FABULOUS | Fantastic... absolutely so! (8) |
| SWEDEN | 70 per cent forested and with 60 per cent of its energy for heating derived from a renewable source, one of the world's most sustainable counties (6) |
| COLLATE | Arrange 70 per cent of security (7) |
| MARTINI | 70 per cent of French island drink (7) |
| DARKENERGY | Force in space comprising about 70 per cent of the universe (4,6) |
| TOPIC | Point to 70 per cent off piccalilli (5) |
| ARAL | - Sea; body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, once the world's fourth largest lake but has shrunk some 70 per cent (4) |
| CHIANTI | Since 2006, this blended wine must be at least 70 per cent Sangiovese, and use no white grapes |
| PLUMB | Absolutely, or absolutely vertical |
| ALL | Pop two litres or absolutely nothing (3,3) (see 4D) |
| SOD | Pop two litres or absolutely nothing (3,3) (see 26D) |
| JUSTRIGHT | Only OK or absolutely perfect (4,5) |
| MONSTROUS | Either really great or absolutely awful (9) |
| ROCKSTEADY | Uncertain about arranged dates or absolutely sure? |
