| DOGGEREL | Lodger, for example, composed inferior verse (8) |
| POETASTER | He writes inferior verse and atrocious operettas |
| RHYMESTER | Writer of inferior verse (9) |
| POETASTERS | American short-story writer previews writers of inferior verse (10) |
| FLATMATE | Strong coffee mother brought in for fellow lodger (8) |
| PROGRESS | Part of Troilus accepted by lodger sometimes found in Royal Society after 8 by ... (8) |
| TENEMENT | Lodger reported over yours truly from run-down building (8) |
| PRINTING | Lodger keeps Alsatian largely to make an impression (8) |
| ROOMMATE | Fellow lodger loves married male in charge (8) |
| SWINGING | David Bowie hit from his 1979 album Lodger, Boys Keep -------- (8) |
| KEYBOARD | Two things a lodger may be given with the piano (8) |
| OCCUPIER | I cure cop's new lodger (8) |
| PILGRIMS | Part of Troilus accepted by lodger sometimes found in Royal Society (see 20) (8) |
| PITCHING | Taking it on the chin, lodger goes out, giving us the key (8) |
| OSBOURNE | Sharon, talent show judge and a 'lodger' on 2024's Celebrity Big Brother (8) |
| RESIDENT | Lodger, and what it costs him to hold party |
| OLDWOMAN | Lodger in The Shoe dated and won over graduate (3,5) |
| OLDFORGE | Resettling of lodger in community owned local in Inverie (3,5) |
| MASTODON | Needing to trap fox, secret lodger lost elephant |
| CROSSTHE | Vexed with the lodger, we hear, enter a neighbour's land (5,3,6) |