| LACTATING | Making milk desperately to align with tact (9) |
| SLANGDICTIONARY | Where informal expressions found to align with Syrian code, oddly translated (5,10) |
| ORIENTATE | Align with reference to the points of the compass (9) |
| CONTACTED | Got through to one with tact needed by CD (9) |
| SCATTERED | Dispersed by worried seer with tact at the beginning of December (9) |
| SPECTATOR | Magazine's prose arranged with tact |
| TESTAMENT | Will meant desperately to follow trial (9) |
| IRRITATED | Ratty tried desperately to hold onto lovely girl (9) |
| DISCREDIT | Tried desperately to support record and slur another (9) |
| ASSERTIVE | Hugging soprano, Eva tries desperately to be confident (9) |
| ENLIVENED | Need line desperately to stay very excited (9) |
| RACEHORSE | Steeplechaser, maybe he cares desperately to claim gold (9) |
| ERUDITION | I tried desperately to get in university, showing scholarship |
| POSTERIOR | Tries desperately to get into deprived seat |
| NEEDLE | Any one of various sharps with which to administer IV therapy, align with Earth's magnetic field, darn, embroider, etch, knit, phlebotomise, play a record, puncture acupoints, suture, tattoo or vaccin |
| ORIENT | Align with reference to compass points (6) |
| SNAP | Of a graphical element, to automatically align with a grid (computing) |
| OBLIGED | Compelled old boy to align centre with writer (7) |
| PASTEUR | French scientist whose name was given to the process of making milk germ-free, Louis ... |
| DAIRY | Establishment making milk products |
