| PITHIEST | Is the tip rambling or most succinct? |
| SULPHUR | 16th in table is the tip for Southampton |
| TERSEST | Setter's construction is most succinct (7) |
| FINGER | A distal phalange is the tip of a ____ |
| SHORTEST | Most succinct |
| KNOCKINGAROUND | Aimlessly rambling or running down 18 holes (8,6) |
| HIKING | Pursuit other than rambling or trekking of walking in nature (6) |
| STROLLING | Rambling or sauntering (9) |
| COMPASS | Device used with a map in pursuits such as walking, rambling or orienteering (7) |
| HIGHLIGHTS | The best or most memorable parts of sporting or other events; blonde streaks or tints in the hair; or, bright or illuminated areas in images, paintings or pictures (10) |
| HOUR | Man or woman of the ..., currently the most important or most admired |
| ELITISM | The practice or system of favouring the richest or most talented in a group or society (7) |
| GIST | The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (4) |
| EPHEMERAL | Word, from the Greek for "lasting only a day", for something fugacious, momentary, short-lived or transient, such as a bubble, cherry blossom, fashion or sunset, or, most notably, the green-drake whic |
| OPTIMUM | The best or most favourable degree, number condition or the like |
| SELFSUFFICIENCY | The ability to produce all or most of one's needs in the way of food, fuel etc. - fluffy science is involved! (4-11) |
| ESSENCES | Most essential or most vital parts of some ideas or experiences (8) |
| STORM | Was in the best (or most worthy) production of The Tempest (5) |
| DRABBEST | Poet from the East of the highest quality or most dreary (8) |
| CLIMAX | The highest or most intense point in a story or a drama |
