| ABULLINACHINASHOP | Mandarin's target perhaps to catch a rat blundering disaster |
| VIPER | One striving, perhaps, to catch head of poisonous snake |
| RATTLER | Left the terrier, perhaps, to catch the snake (7) |
| GLASSIN | Enclose porch, perhaps, to catch girl in trap (5,2) |
| DERVISH | Notable spinner, perhaps, to catch Hampshire's opener after drive's botched (7) |
| LEMON | Fruit related to citrons, pomelos and mandarins (5) |
| STANDUPS | Fail to keep appointment with last of mandarins in Whitehall etc |
| SATSUMA | English name of a Japanese fruit in the family that includes oranges, mandarins, clementines, bergamots, tangerines, lemons and limes (7) |
| TANGERINES | Fruits similar to mandarins |
| BROWN | A number of old party mandarins originally unlike old PM (5,2,6,5) |
| MOTHER | A number of old party mandarins originally unlike old PM (5,2,6,5) |
| KNEESUP | A number of old party mandarins originally unlike old PM (5,2,6,5) |
| NAM | Subject of Noam Chomsky's "American Power and the New Mandarins," briefly |
| SIMONEDEBEAUVOIR | Author of The Mandarins and the feminist treatise The Second Sex |
| MILLRACE | Foremost of mandarins, I will compete in the fast stream |
| ORANGERY | Basho's last lines about region where mandarins thrive |
| CHINESELANTERN | Fruit which may throw some light on mandarins? |
| ORANGERIES | Reorganise free housing for some mandarins |
| OFFICIALDOM | Rubbish about chemical company upset Defence Ministry mandarins |
| ORANGETURNOVER | Fruit-filled pastry liked by Mandarins? |
