| LITMUSTEST | Key indicator in case covering appeal: a necessity |
| MILESTONE | Distance indicator in case somebody takes motorway first (9) |
| AITCH | Letter from a church covering appeal |
| SITINS | Mistakes when covering appeal in protests (3,3) |
| PITCHINTO | Strongly rebuke thin cop poorly covering appeal (5,4) |
| SANSKRIT | Language lacking case covering third of participles (8) |
| AUCTION | Legal case covering university sale (7) |
| CRETACEOUS | Criminal court case covering drug period (10) |
| CRY | A plea, shout or urgent appeal; a fit of weeping; a pack of hounds or their hunting bay; a proclamation of a town's bellringer; or, the call of a street-trader selling goods (3) |
| BUBBLE | A globule of air as the indicator in a spirit level; a glass/plastic dome; a place protected from unpleasant reality; or, a "house of cards" (6) |
| SIGNPOST | A pole or stake from which to hang an inn's name board; an "indicator" in a cryptic crossword; a roadside waymark; or, a clue (8) |
| RADIATIVE | Diffusing energy in sex-appeal - a help when turning up in music party |
| ITALICISE | How printers emphasise appeal: a girl is taken in |
| UNPOPULAR | Lacking appeal, a French university in London E fourteen |
| ENAMOUR | Appeal a lot to state, blocking Paris street in Revolution |
| NEBRASKA | Climbing mountain above river with appeal, a location in America (8) |
| SATRAP | Sex appeal, a snare for a rich and tyrannical man (6) |
| COCKROBIN | Show-off outdoor singer: "Key indicator of Mozart work in con brio version" (4,5) |
| RAVIOLI | Italian cases covering over a violin (7) |
| SPHERICITY | Her spicy dancing contains sex appeal, a quality of a heavenly body (10) |
