| IRRITATE | Mad keeping close to commuter, it gives you bug (8) |
| EAVESDROP | Pulls out of hospital procedure after doctor gives you bug (9) |
| PASSENGER | Transfer green form to commuter (9) |
| MAIDS | It is mad keeping servants! (5) |
| ANNAPOLISALBANY | "Only one Granny Smith for you, Bugs"? |
| BUSES | Out of service to commuters, they come in twos regularly! (5) |
| PICKETER | Labour contender? Preference always keeping close to chest (8) |
| CANBERRA | Pole keeping close to benign gunners in capital city (8) |
| REPTILES | Creatures on mounds keeping close to summit (8) |
| BABYCHAM | Bambi largely recollected keeping close to fizzy drink a this one? (8) |
| DORTMUND | Walked over wet soft ground, keeping close to action in German city (8) |
| OVERCOME | Break past Coe, keeping close to Cram (8) |
| ESCORTED | Accompanied little fellow, about twenty, keeping close to parent |
| DEATHROW | Prison block where lawyer is keeping close to Laurence Fox |
| WORRYING | It 'gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere': Glenn Turner |
| AEROFOIL | A warning about lubricant: it gives you a lift (8) |
| ELEVATED | Employ a valet and see how it gives you a lift (8) |
| TELLTALE | It gives you words as well as picture (8) |
| ARTISTRY | "It gives you a completely different look, like you have been blessed by nature rather than blessed by the magic of make-up ____" (India Knight, writing about mascara) |
| INTANDEM | Saint and emissary keeping close together (2,6) |