| CIVILSERVANT | Mandarin orange centre shown in Sir Clive TV broadcast (5,7) |
| OCALA | Florida orange center |
| EVERTON | Clive, TV snooker commentator and former player born in 1937 (7) |
| ANDERSON | Clive -, TV presenter, Hans Christian -, Danish fairy tale author (8) |
| GLENNAQUOICH | The seat of Fergus Mac-Ivor in Sir Walter Scott's historical novel Waverley |
| LLOYDS | Sir Clive Sinclair's first institution in 1 (6) |
| SINCLAIR | Sir Clive, at first in trouble, accepts 50% of Sugar's backing (8) |
| MIRROR | A looking-glass such as the convex specimen represented in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait or the concave example in Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope (6) |
| KENILWORTH | Market town in Warwickshire with a castle immortalised in Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name (10) |
| OCHILTREE | Licensed beggar in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary (9) |
| UTOPIA | Perfect state described in Sir Thomas More's essay (6) |
| LIONESS | Female with pride in Sir Tristram’s birthplace, it’s said |
| ATOUCH | Small amount of frost in Sir David Jason series (1,5) |
| KATRINE | Loch which features in Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake (7) |
| ORTHODONTISTS | Don't put in sir's tooth wonky! They should straighten it out (13) |
| TOTEM | James Ryan is Ireland's - - - pole player, said Sir Clive Woodward earlier this year (5) |
| LLOYD | Sir Clive ____, a Guyanese-British former cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team |
| CYAN | Word, found in Sir John Herschel's name for a blueprint, for a blue-green colour, complementary to red (4) |
| WATSON | Dr John ---, Sherlock Holmes' friend and assistant in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories (6) |
| SATSUMA | Variety of seedless mandarin orange, seasonal in December (7) |