| DUNGENESS | Muck-spreading sense in Kent (9) |
| INANENESS | Lack of sense, in an odd sense (9) |
| INTUITION | Sixth sense in teaching (9) |
| LOGISTICS | Planning deficit cut takes sense in charge (9) |
| POINTLESS | There's no sense in having a broken pencil! (9) |
| TERSENESS | Brevity and imperfect sense in half of chapters (9) |
| INTELLECT | Understanding reason to have common sense in mind (9) |
| GIBBERISH | Husband, father, born great, overthrown: no sense in this (9) |
| AWARENESS | A peculiar raw sense in knowing what's going on (9) |
| BRAINCELL | Some sense in this, perhaps: finding undergarment in small room (5,4) |
| HARNESSED | Being controlled and exploited makes poor sense in difficult surroundings (9) |
| OMINOUSLY | Cockney's moralising talk suppresses common sense in sinister way (9) |
| AGENTNOUN | Writer, maybe, chap with a lot of sense in article |
| LARCENOUS | Unusually clear - having some sense in committing crime |
| MARESNEST | Somehow sense in market phoney item being offered? |
| FUZZYMATH | Numbers that don't make sense, in campaign-speak |
| UNTOUCHED | Virgin sees sense in nude dancing |
| OVERSIGHT | Sense, in the end, that removing top cover could be a mistake |
| FISHFARMS | Ray perhaps up to a point, starts to make sense in school development sites (4,5) |
| SAWREASON | Came to their senses in time to quash terrible war (3,6) |
