| ISOLATED | Lost aide somehow gets stranded (8) |
| HIGHANDDRY | Dinghy hard to manoeuvre gets stranded (4,3,3) |
| KASHMIRI | Mash somehow gets stuck in opera singer's tongue (8) |
| STAGNATE | Somehow gets a tan to decline (8) |
| MISDEALS | Young lady, holding lead, somehow gets hands mixed up (8) |
| GEMSTONE | Jasper, perhaps, somehow gets me working inside (8) |
| STRUGGLE | Mat somehow gets left outside in combat (8) |
| MISREADS | Young girl, drinking a red, somehow gets the wrong idea (8) |
| PRESTIGE | Somehow gets pier standing |
| PETITION | Poet in it somehow gets list of signatures |
| PETEROUT | True poet somehow gets to disappear gradually (5,3) |
| SLIPPERY | Evasive and crafty piper somehow gets inside |
| BABYDOLL | Bad boy somehow gets fifty pounds for a toy (4,4) |
| RECOUPS | Precious one getting lost somehow gets back |
| SEALOFAPPROVAL | A pal's floor almost paved somehow gets endorsement (4,2,8) |
| HELICAL | Chap I call somehow gets into shape (7) |
| STOOGE | Fall guy somehow gets to keep rings (6) |
| DONEIN | Donnie somehow gets exhausted (4,2) |
| OVERT | Lacking in name, inventor somehow gets patent |
| STAGED | Somehow gets ad produced (6) |
