| CRIMEPASSIONNEL | Love killing, but strangely calm in prison, see? |
| OPENTOTHEPUBLIC | Love in prison: see off Moor in charge, keeping inn unrestricted (4,2,3,6) |
| ALMANAC | Strangely calm about two articles in the year book (7) |
| JUBILANT | Man's ending in jail, but strangely very happy |
| TIMBUKTU | Town in Mali principally but strangely enthralling us? (8) |
| MISDOUBTS | Suspects swindle but strangely taken in by young lady (9) |
| CAMEL | Strangely calm about eastern desert transport (5) |
| MALCONTENTS | Strangely calm before sent to new start with such unhappy people |
| LAMEDUCK | Duke strangely calm despite being unlikely to be re-elected |
| MEGALOMANIAC | Strangely calm with age, imprisoned Arab dictator (12) |
| SEDATE | Seated, strangely calm and quiet (6) |
| REBARBATIVE | A brave tribe, but strangely unattractive (11) |
| MISSPELT | Simplest, but strangely written wrongly |
| VOLCANIC | Very laconic, but strangely given to sudden outbursts |
| GODLY | Decent and good, but strangely heartless |
| ALLTHEGO | Fashionable work - but strangely lethal, initially |
| HEADOFAFALCON | Foal had no face but strangely Horus had one (4,2,1,6) |
| UNITE | Untie, but strangely, make as one whole (5) |
| REPRESENTATIVE | Typical but, strangely, it never repeats |
| HERETICAL | Irreligious but strangely ethical without hesitation |