| WHERETO | Leading question, perhaps - to which wet hero at sea? |
| COMERAINOR | Micronesian hero at sea whatever the circumstances (4,4,2,5) |
| SHINE | Micronesian hero at sea whatever the circumstances (4,4,2,5) |
| OTHERWISE | Wet hero is to get changed or else! |
| CLOTHESLINE | On which wet smalls are hung (7,4) |
| MANGLE | A machine with rollers into which wet laundry is squeezed (6) |
| ISAYNO | Answer to one's own rhetorical question, perhaps |
| KNEEL | Prepare to pop the question, perhaps |
| KNELT | Prepared to pop the question, perhaps |
| AREA | Solution to a geometry question, perhaps |
| IRAQI | Paramilitaries with leading question for ME national (5) |
| TOPIC | One caught after leading question (5) |
| IRANI | Independent Republican with a leading question for Middle East citizen (5) |
| ANYONEFORTENNIS | Leading question that begins court proceedings? (6,3,6) |
| OTHER | Last option on a survey question, perhaps |
| LOOK | Catch what you may see after the question perhaps? (4) |
| WHATSNEW | Question, perhaps asked when greeting wife, was then outrageous (5,3) |
| YET | "Are we there ___?" (impatient child's question, perhaps) |
| STALL | Repeat an interviewer's question, perhaps |
| DODGE | Venetian leader welcomes death, to avoid answering questions, perhaps |
