| TYPICAL | It comes from the clay-pit, just as you'd expect (7) |
| NATURAL | Of note, just as you'd expect (7) |
| ASUSUAL | American city, America, America on the rise - just as you'd expect (2,5) |
| EARTHEN | Make money from transporting the clay (7) |
| CESTLAVIE | Select via corruption - it's just as you'd expect! |
| PARFORTHECOURSE | Old man abroad is confined to resort, just as you'd expect |
| NOBIRD | A shout from the clay referee gives us first refusal on a flock member (2,4) |
| EXPECT | Just as you'd think, this oration is from the mouth |
| ADOBE | What is the Spanish word for a sun-dried brick and for the clay soil from which the brick is made? (5) |
| TERRACOTTA | A hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware, or the clay from which it is made |
| TRAPSHOOTER | The clay enthusiast adds a catchy device to the gun (4-7) |
| CONSPICUOUS | Extravagant spending, as you'd expect from over-the-top diva playing Mimi? (11,11) |
| TANDOORI | ___ chicken (Indian dish named after the clay oven it is prepared in) |
| BAUXITIC | Describing the clay-like rock that is the main ore of aluminium (8) |
| UNSOLVED | Like the Millennium Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute |
| CLERIHEW | This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I |
| TAGINE | Moroccan stew with various spices, apricots/prunes and almonds, or the clay pot in which it is slow-cooked (6) |
| ADOBELILY | Californian flowering plant with pink petals, named after the clay in which it grows (5, 4) |
| BIND | A stem of the hop plant; a tie in music; the clay between layers of coal; or, a statutory constraint (4) |
| LIKE | and 27ac, Straight down the hatch, as you'd expect with slammer? (4,1,4) |
