| NACREOUS | It's to do with mother-of-pearl USA crone removed (8) |
| PRENATAL | Moving article, to do with mother and father during pregnancy (8) |
| HARBOR | The bombing of Pearl ... US naval port in Hawaii brought America into WWII |
| CENSOR | Official crones removed (6) |
| ABALONES | Edible molluscs with shallow ear-shaped shells lined with mother of pearl (8) |
| ABATTOIR | Backs civil disorder charge - it's to do with a scene of bloodshed (8) |
| DILUVIAL | Laud with 57 Romans moving about, it's to do with the flood (8) |
| PAPIER | With "mache", "chewed" pulp used to make boxes, doll heads, masks or even trays to be japanned and inlaid with mother-of-pearl (6) |
| OFCOURSE | It's to do with the pursuit of game, naturally |
| NAUTICAL | It's to do with ships in actual trouble (8) |
| ESPALIER | One slip up: it's to do with climbing up trellis (8) |
| HIMALAYA | Greeting old country, it's to do with mountains (8) |
| GALACTIC | Georgia had milky acid, it's to do with the Milky Way (8) |
| TALMUDIC | Calm audit drops article - it's to do with old law (8) |
| CLIMATIC | Charlie has nervous reaction going round capital, it's to do with the weather (8) |
| ABALONE | Large mollusc with a shell lined with mother-of-pearl |
| EXECUTOR | Former partner engineering court action - it's to do with whether Will gave him a job? (8) |
| BANKRATE | It's to do with interest in holding money for informer on ecstasy (4,4) |
| SOREDIAL | Painful face? It's to do with a few fungus-covered bits |
| FRONTEND | Father ruptured tendon, it's to do with costs in advance (5-3) |
