| PAPASTOUR | Island off Shetland that is home to very many seabirds (4,5) |
| UPHELLYAA | Annual midwinter festival in Lerwick, Shetland, that includes the ceremonial burning of a Viking ship (2-5-2) |
| ERNES | Surprisingly, the Severn is not home to very many fish-eating birds (5) |
| SOLOWHIST | Time to put an end to very mean fellow's game |
| SOTTOVOCE | Drunk to go to very old church - muttering so? |
| TOPSECRET | Church service see backed is known to very few? |
| FINETUNED | Made small adjustments to very good piece of music on day one (4-5) |
| SOAPOPERA | A religious leader and artist attached to very long-running show (4,5) |
| ABANDONED | A number of persons, badly done by, may to very wicked (9) |
| STOPPAGES | To very quietly interrupt wise ones causing work disputes (9) |
| MAELSTROM | Doctor alerts mom to very confused state of affairs (9) |
| SUGARCANE | Grass acted as informant, giving away name familiar to very few people |
| SLATTERNS | Rents out at last, mistakenly, to very poor housekeepers (9) |
| SOCIOPATH | Unsympathetic type, one com-mitted to very firm course (9) |
| WHITEHEAT | State of something subjected to very high temperatures (5,4) |
| EXCEEDING | Being superior to - very |
| VOLTEFACE | Left out, admitted to very old "great" it's a significant change in position (5-4) |
| CRYOGENIC | Relating to very low temperatures (9) |
| PULVERISE | Reduce to very small particles (9) |
| NATAL | Referring to very early start, the French bronze has to be returned |
