| EXPENSIVE | It's costly to keep swans (four) in the river (9) |
| EXCESSIVE | Extreme to impose tax before four in the river (9) |
| CONSTANTLY | Around the North it's costly to hold worker on and on (10) |
| REED | Sounds like it's costly to return grass (4) |
| EXTENSIVE | Costly to sacrifice pawn for knight at the end in general (9) |
| DELAROCHE | French painter whose depictions of historical scenes include The Children of Edward IV in the Tower and The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (9) |
| QUADRANTS | There are four in the circumference of a circle (9) |
| OUTOFWORK | It took four in the West to become unemployed (3,2,4) |
| EVERYBODY | Song by Hear'Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001 |
| ROSSI | Who is the only football player in the world to have won the World Cup, Golden Boot, Golden Ball and Ballon d'or awards - all four in the same year? (5) |
| CAR | Endlessly worry this is too costly to manufacture in the UK? (3) |
| JUGULAR | ? vein, any one of four in the neck that return blood to the heart from the head |
| NATIVE | One born in the country at four in the Northeast (6) |
| DEARY | Costly to the very end, darling |
| TOLLWAY | Relocated wall to end of country road that's costly to use (7) |
| DEALER | Costly to employ the French trader (6) |
| LIVEAMMUNITION | The French, about four in the morning, may start mating with it filling the blanks? Au contraire! (4 |
| DANIEL | 1973 Elton John single that reached number four in the UK and number two in the US |
| COBS | Round loaves of bread for the male swans (4) |
| WILLY | 1972 single by The Sweet that reached number 4 in the UK and number 3 in the US (6,5) |
