| SACROSANCT | It's too important to interfere with whales raised on beach briefly close to Connecticut (10) |
| THEELEPHANTROOM | It's too important to ignore, literally |
| EELLIKE | Point to butcher briefly close to bridge going round Serpentine (7) |
| SANDWICH | With German setter on beach briefly, somewhere in Kent (8) |
| RADII | The bones of broadcasting unit briefly close to his heart (5) |
| CITE | Quote from Washington, briefly, close to Delaware (4) |
| STRANRAER | Back turned on beach, briefly, in Scottish town |
| SHORTEN | Check number on beach, briefly (7) |
| ABOVEBOARD | Too important for the directors to deal with, to be frank (5,5) |
| DISCONNECT | Part of Rhode Island is next to Connecticut |
| MEDDLESOME | Liable to interfere (10) |
| MACADAMIA | Stones on the road beginning to interfere with a nut tree (9) |
| TAMPER | Me part with it only for you to interfere with it? (6) |
| ELECTRONICCONTROL | The 'brains' of racing machines when they started to interfere with a rider's input. (10,7,4) |
| UNIT | The 'brains' of racing machines when they started to interfere with a rider's input. (10,7,4) |
| ABOVETHEGRIME | Too important to deal with lowly cleaning? |
| ECTRA | Actor used for background scenes; a cricket run such as a no-ball or leg bye; or, a special edition of a newspaper with news deemed too important to hold until the next print mn (5) |
| WILDE | "Life is much too important...to talk seriously about it" author |
| AVERT | Head off from state close to Connecticut (5) |
| BREAKONESWORD | Tear up agreement to interfere with unit for one of The Blades (5,3-1,4) |
