| MEGAMERGER | Makes a really big deal of Margaret and Albert getting married by church official losing the head (4-6) |
| CLEANING | Stick around college official losing the head working with the Polish (8) |
| ELDER | Only some held erect by church official (5) |
| TEEMING | Packed and getting married by the sound of it (7) |
| AREA | A region that makes a really good start (4) |
| MOUSE | Timid chap getting married by river |
| RECTO | University official losing the last page (5) |
| EASE | Has no problem with Josh losing the head (4) |
| AVID | All fired up? Yes, maybe actor Tennant is losing the head (4) |
| LENTILASAJAMB | Soup ingredient that makes a really tiny doorway? |
| DEACONCORDUROYS | Pants worn by church officials in New Hampshire? |
| PHONEMARS | Make a really long-distance call? |
| GAINSBOROUGH | Sudbury-born landscapist and portraitist, one of whose paintings includes his daughters, Margaret and Mary, chasing a cabbage-white butterfly on a summer evening, and another is of a boy dressed in bl |
| DOWNPLAY | Don't make a big deal of a move in American football (4,4) |
| REAR | Whilst driving through Appledore, a really big truck stopped suddenly and I ran into the back of it (4) |
| DURRELL | The youngest member of a family once residing on the island of Corfu, whose passion for collecting local fauna caused great consternation among his siblings Lawrence, Leslie, Margaret and scruffy dog |
| MAGPIE | Based on a diminutive form of "Margaret", signifying a chatterbox, the name of a black-and-white corvid with a chattering call (6) |
| WOOD | Victoria -; late comedienne who wrote and starred in Pat and Margaret and Dinnerladies (4) |
| MOGGY | A pet form of "Margaret" that is given as a nickname to a cat, a cow, a ginger cake or a scarecrow (5) |
| AGENT | One who may make a big deal of it |
