| OCTOPUSES | Marine creatures have month to work on benefits (9) |
| THERMIDOR | The Marines and I would otherwise have month in France (9) |
| MAGI | Wise men have month in Paris, around end of spring |
| NOVICES | Beginners have month with chilled treats (7) |
| YEARLINGS | Young creatures have to rely on a sing-along! (9) |
| PENSIONER | Lock up one punching gentleman, a person on benefits (9) |
| NURSEMAID | Nanny runs off, with me being raised on benefit (9) |
| ONTHEDOLE | Living on benefit, has done hotel out of it (2,3,4) |
| OCTOPUS | A month to work on sea-creature (7) |
| TENTACLES | Flexible appendages on some marine creatures (9) |
| OCEANIDES | Fish caught in canoes turned out to be beautiful marine creatures? |
| SEAHORSES | Marine creatures in hearses, so badly driven! (9) |
| AQUARIUMS | Zoos for marine creatures (9) |
| CUBANEELS | Cigar-shaped marine creatures? |
| SEAURCHIN | Marine creature's bad cold - sun, I hear, needed |
| VIPERS | Ungrateful creatures have six persons on my boy's departure (6) |
| OCTOPUSH | A month to work hard for underwater sport |
| DOLEFUL | Sad to be on benefits? (7) |
| POTTER | Mycologist, shepherdess and watercolourist whose illustrated books based on anthropomorphic bunnies, kittens, squirrels and other country creatures have sold some 250 million copies since 1902 (6) |
| VERMIN | Never mind -- these nasty creatures have been caught! (6) |
