| INDISPENSABLE | Key spies blend in somehow, casing area (13) |
| CRUCIAL | Key spies captured by ruthless leader of Eritrea killed (7) |
| ALTAIC | Key spies going west to find linguistic families (6) |
| INABROWNSTUDY | Try and bow us in, somehow, deep in thought (2,1,5,5) |
| GRINANDBEARIT | Danger Britain is in somehow, being stoically amused (4,3,4,2) |
| TOMIXANDMATCH | To gather complementary items and blend in with peer? |
| MANORHOUSE | Rodent casing area with horn-playing in lordly residence (5,5) |
| MACADAMIA | After casing area, Scottish engineer set up excellent plant (9) |
| INSENSATE | Hardened criminal isn't seen casing area (9) |
| DEAF | Audibly challenged foreign agent casing area to north |
| MATAHARI | Shot him, a rat casing area for German agent (4,4) |
| COALFIRED | Officer casing area dismissed for taking unrefined coke? (4-5) |
| DAYTRIPPERS | Pickpockets casing area try jostling tourists (3-8) |
| ANTIGUAN | West Indian hostile to assassin casing area |
| INNINGS | Sign in somehow about noon, in time to swing the willow (7) |
| ROOMIER | I must get in somehow, more or less cramped (7) |
| WASP | Typical American perhaps that gets in somehow as president (4) |
| TRILLIONS | It rolls in somehow ___ serious money! (9) |
| NEWMORNING | Dawn's brought wrong men in somehow (3,7) |
| MINYAN | Many in, somehow, a Jewish quorum (6) |
