| EASTERNER | New Yorker perhaps set to become involved in profitable venture |
| PACHYDERM | Elephant, perhaps, set to nurse sore head, ultimately |
| AMIDST | It's mad to become involved in the thick of things (6) |
| IMPASTO | Painting technique Pam is to become involved in (7) |
| TUTORIAL | University to become involved in experimental teaching |
| TOSSUP | Puss to become involved in a flip of the coin? (4-2) |
| RIOTS | Leading runner is to become involved in uprisings |
| PROPEL | Drive the Pole to become involved in Public Relations (6) |
| ENTREAT | Plea to become involved in a broken treaty (7) |
| MALADROIT | It's nothing to become involved in a mad trial and then appear clumsy (9) |
| INTRIGUE | How tiring for you and little Eric to become involved in such an underhand plot! |
| YANK | The pull of New Yorker perhaps (4) |
| AMERICAN | New Yorker, perhaps, developing Cinerama (8) |
| RADIOTELESCOPE | Set to become smaller in order to receive waves from outer space (5,9) |
| STREETS | Ways in which the rest, perhaps, set out to |
| GETINONTHEACT | "... to join in profitable activity, once that gent and I reach an arrangement" |
| PAYMASTERGENERAL | New player manager set to become government minister |
| ARISTOTLE | Was a tailor set to become a philosopher, in the past? (9) |
| DYER | Danny _, actor set to become a grandad thanks to his daughter Dani (4) |
| GETINTO | Become involved in attempt to hire English cast (3,4) |
