| SOAPY | Like flattery for example to interleave with work (5) |
| INSERT | Put in, interleave (6) |
| BLANDISHMENT | Dullish, Intended to sound like flattery (12) |
| SYCOPHANTIC | City chaps on high like flattery |
| NUDGE | Turns up, for example, to press for payment with a gentle push (5) |
| EGEUS | Father in 12, for example, to go to law, rejected (5) |
| ASSAY | When, for example, to test for quality (5) |
| ROYALTY | "Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to _ you should lay it on with a trowel": Benjamin Disraeli (7) |
| EGOMASSAGE | Flattery for a big star |
| GLADE | Turned, for example, to shelter young man in clearing (5) |
| CADGE | Beg scoundrel, for example, to come back (5) |
| RANGE | Managed, for example, to return kitchen appliance (5) |
| DIRGE | A song for example to get shot of on retirement (5) |
| EYING | Looking, for example, to adopt a principle of Chinese philosophy (5) |
| EAGER | Keen, for example, to roll up and be entertained by organ (5) |
| RIDGE | Free, for example, to climb hill-range (5) |
| LIEGE | Lie, for example, to a loyal servant (5) |
| BADGE | It's wrong, for example, to return an identification pin (5) |
| SIEGE | The Spaniard says "yes" for example to the eastern blockade (5) |
| SAUCY | Cheeky, for example, to restrict universal copyright (5) |
