| SURFACETENSION | Liquid runs so if retaining "A", "X" being liquid property |
| CHUCKBERRY | Rock 'n' roller's fling with X being bound to slip up (5,5) |
| MOTHEATEN | Mark old articles with X, being shabby |
| OVERATE | Speed of bowling halving runs, so got stuffed |
| MAESTRO | Brilliant player in team runs so amazingly |
| MONSTROUS | Huge Tom runs so awkwardly |
| AQUATIC | A quantity of liquid runs out, I see, like water? |
| BEAD | A drop of liquid runs out of loaf (4) |
| FACTORS | a and b of a x b = c |
| LUNATIC | Originally locked up now and then, if crazed? |
| DUCKOUT | Skip scoring no runs then being dismissed (4,3) |
| TRUSTWORTHINESS | Liquid runs — it's the worst consistency? |
| UPRIVER | Carrying very minute drops from impure liquid, runs towards source |
| AFLOCKOFSEAGULLS | Liverpool-based band whose hit singles included I Ran (So Far Away) and Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) |
| CHOPIN | Composer uses middle note, so if you need a lift... (6) |
| HENCE | So, if he were given only half a chance? (5) |
| ANGRIER | Will it make you so if a ring broke back again? (7) |
| MAFIOSO | So, if Mao was revolutionary, was he also a criminal? |
| ASITWERE | A location into which we run, so to speak |
| RICHES | Runs, then freezes, having snatched Henry's money (6) |
