| EPODE | Lyric poem in chapter is excluded (5) |
| CASUISTICAL | Using false reasoning in chapter is one's actual blunder |
| CHARLESI | Dunfermline-born King Lear mixed up in chapter is overthrown (7,1) |
| SCOUR | Chapter is in bad taste, but it's clean (5) |
| ITINA | 1986 memoir whose fifth chapter is titled "A Fool in Love" |
| PHASE | Chapter is heaps better (5) |
| CLEAR | Obvious chapter is by one who wrote nonsense (5) |
| RAISE | Jack in Tara is excluded (5) |
| EVERY | In a clever year-book, none is excluded (5) |
| ENNUI | Boredom in tune broadcast after tenor is excluded (5) |
| BUTCH | Objection chapter is tough |
| CANON | One is found in chapter, as a rule (5) |
| TERSE | Sparing in the use of words in chapter seven (5) |
| USERS | University that is excluded from regular feature on Telly Addicts? (5) |
| BASED | Positioned with prejudice ... Boatman is excluded (5) |
| DUETS | Is excluded from studies, possibly, by playful couples (5) |
| ONTHE | No other ute, after reconditioning, is excluded (2,3,5) |
| OUTER | No other ute, after reconditioning, is excluded (2,3,5) |
| TRAIT | Characteristic route, but no, son is excluded (5) |
| HEIDI | Novel whose first chapter is titled "Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle" |
