| PEEROFTHEREALM | Leader of party ___ therefore male when discharged to become this maybe? (4,2,3,5) |
| UPSWING | Power held by our group over part of party ___ increasing trend (7) |
| CONSENT | He gets discharged to get permission (7) |
| DISMAL | Do it so male suffering cuts becomes poor (6) |
| SALOME | She danced so male could get the chop! |
| MECHANIZEDSIKH | Kesh nice mazhbi'd destroyed, cutting front of beard, to become this? |
| INDOCTRINATION | What's nasty dictator repeatedly in on? This, maybe |
| SWALLOW | The old lady did this to this, maybe? (How absurd!) |
| CHISEL | Interior of church is elaborately carved using this, maybe? |
| CONSOMME | Study a few eating starter in meal - this maybe? (8) |
| BUDAPEST | Twin cities on opposite banks of a river were united to become this capital of Hungary |
| LAWYER | Will Rogers observed that to make crime pay you had to become this sort of professional |
| WISE | Early to bed and early to rise helps one to become this (4) |
| RELEASED | Was about to have rented out to a resident, when discharged (8) |
| BACKFLIP | I hear some are salty, like this maybe? (8) |
| WAFERTHIN | When fat, I run, exercising to become this? (5-4) |
| RECOIL | The kick of a gun or firearm when discharged (6) |
| SELFADDRESSED | False boobs, big cups, topless, squeezed - this male, when picked up, will return (4-9) |
| UNMASK | Reveal the identity of a foreign male when given request |
| IDRINK | "___, therefore I am" - according to both Descartes by way of Monty Python, and Roger Scruton? (1,5) |
