| XYLOPHONIST | Musician needs axes to cut this? No, wrong |
| BLUEEYEDBOY | A favourite who can do no wrong (4-4,3) |
| PASTPERFECT | Tense, having previously done no wrong? |
| MEMBRANE | European doctor managed to cut this writer's skin |
| TOBACCO | George Clooney used to cut this in Kentucky (7) |
| FALSE | River seen by pair at bridge? No, wrong (5) |
| OTTAWA | Aquatic animal heard at Washington? No, wrong capital! |
| BONHOMIE | Friendliness in most of Bohemia? No, wrong |
| BOMBAZINE | Fabric West exported from Zimbabwe? No, wrong |
| ERRONEOUS | British sovereign on newly-minted euros? No, wrong |
| HERON | Bird is the female? No. Wrong (5) |
| PEACEONEARTH | Christmas greeting showing a peach tree? No, wrong (5,2,5) |
| ALDER | Tree from which one gets deal, right? No: wrong (5) |
| SOTHO | The language found in the calypso thoroughfare? No - wrong continent (5) |
| MAKEATHINGOF | Overstate force with a fight? No, wrong (4,1,5,2) |
| NOTE | A musician needs to follow this comment (4) |
| BASSIST | Musician needs help with opening to ballet |
| VERDI | Italian musician needs decision to avoid court (5) |
| ISINGLASS | This this? No, but in curtains with peepholes (9) |
| GASELIER | Electricity first used in Algiers, perhaps to light this? No (8) |
