| LIAISE | Network of leaders arriving in secret taken in by deception (6) |
| NEARLYTHERE | Almost finished with new leader arriving before time (6,5) |
| GARRISON | Gang leader arriving with one boy from fortified place |
| SMELL | Spy chief taken in by deception, in a sense (5) |
| TRAMP | Male taken in by deception is one of no fixed abode |
| LIEGE | Faithful, say, when taken in by deception |
| LIFTED | Held up paper consumed by deception at department (6) |
| FOBOFF | Get rid of by deception, ... a fake (3,3) |
| CRAYON | Children's writer has man caught by deception (6) |
| LULLED | Calmed, by deception perhaps (6) |
| ROBERT | Aaron's jailed husband, unaware of his half-brother John arriving in (6) |
| MARTIN | House -; related to swallows and hunted by hobbies, a migratory bird arriving in the UK from Africa around April (6) |
| SAVING | A very suspicious type arriving in bearer of gifts: no 26 - this with 26? (6,7,4) |
| ADROIT | Clever sign for British drivers arriving in Calais? (6) |
| ADRIFT | These days, if arriving in right time, is all at sea (6) |
| COMING | Arriving in company with an old Chinese (6) |
| VENICE | English arriving in very pleasant Adriatic city |
| HEARSE | You might be late arriving in this car |
| JIGGERYPOKERY | Dancer gets hot rod in two years by deception (7-6) |
| PALMINGOFF | Disposing of by deception |
