| NOCANDO | It's not possible to fool around with our leader (2,3,2) |
| LASSO | Catch girl with our leader (5) |
| MAGNIFICO | Pompous with our leader who's a Venetian grandee (9) |
| FOLIO | Large-format book for one to fool around with (5) |
| FLAPDOODLE | It's nonsense to fool around with paddle (10) |
| LANDMARK | Damn silly to fool around with the signpost (8) |
| OUTTAKE | It's not possible to acquire unused footage |
| OPULENT | "Not possible to stop the whimper" - that's rich! (7) |
| DISPORT | Daughter is left to fool around in books (7) |
| SKYLARK | Bird to fool around? (7) |
| OVERFED | Our leader, before five, freed revolutionary who had been given too much to eat (7) |
| JOHNSON | His words exhaustive, deprive our leader of power (6,7) |
| PASSAGE | Fool around with a plant extract (7) |
| UNUTTERABLE | It's not possible to say one's powerless to protect state |
| GASEOUS | Immaterial sages wrong about our leaders (7) |
| THEPOINTOFNO | It's not possible to go back there! (3,5,2,2,6) |
| RETURN | It's not possible to go back there! (3,5,2,2,6) |
| ONION | On reflection, it's not possible to keep current Head (5) |
| FLOOSIE | One of the Loose Women fools around with a drug (7) |
| SESTINA | Rossetti essentially fools around with American verse form (7) |
