| MALNOURISHED | Load menu liberally, admitting PM for the most part's short of food (12) |
| PRATTLE | Empty talk of prince and former PM for the most part (7) |
| PROTEM | Habitual routine adopted by PM for the time being (3,3) |
| GLADSTONE | On December 9, 1868, he became prime minister for the first time by defeating Benjamin Disraeli. |
| ARVO | Afternoon for the Aussie (4) |
| RODENT | Word, from "fly homeward in the evening", for the regular dusk or dawn flight of the "snipe of the woods" (6) |
| DAYBED | Time in the garden for one of those taking it easy in the afternoon, for instance (3,3) |
| ORION | A brilliant constellation on the celestial equator visible from most parts of the earth |
| AVOCADO | The bounder gets a ring in the afternoon for fruit (7) |
| FAIREST | Most just go short of food filled with rage (7) |
| OCTAGON | In most parts of the world, the road sign warning you to stop is this shape (it's a triangle in Japa |
| PRECIOUSSTONES | Beryl and Ruby maybe arranged P&O cruises to most parts of the globe? (8,6) |
| PIPISTRELLE | A small, brownish, insectivorous bat occurring in most parts of the world (11) |
| VIPER | Venomous snake found in most parts of the world (5) |
| STEVEWRIGHT | English radio broadcaster who presented his show in the Afternoon for 12 years on BBC Radio 1 and 23 years on BBC Radio 2 (5,6) |
| CHIPMUNK | Ground squirrel in the afternoon for all to see entering narrow opening (8) |
| PRISM | Knight returning in the afternoon for telescope component (5) |
| JOHNMULANEY | Comic who said "I'm like an iPhone, it's going to be worse versions of this every year, plus I get super hot in the middle of the afternoon for no reason." |
| BLACKBOARD | Billion are short of food and school equipment (10) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
