| NECROTISE | Nice with no filling, cold sandwiches start to exhibit decay (9) |
| CREMEDELACREME | The very best TV cook bar one filling cold troops on both sides (5,2,2,5) |
| NIECE | Decent sandwiches start to entice relative (5) |
| BRINE | Pickle and cheese sandwiches start to niff (5) |
| TOSCANINI | Maestro knocked back lush cold sandwiches, abandoning piano (9) |
| WACKO | Out to lunch, ace ladies put out cold sandwiches (5) |
| PRONOUNCE | Maybe he's topping cake with no filling, say (9) |
| RETICENCE | How to make Crete nice, with its unforthcoming quality (9) |
| DELIRIOUS | Very nice with run for leadership of Congress getting crazy (9) |
| DECORATED | Indeed, an actor made it look nice with paint and paper (9) |
| ENFAMILLE | Nice with one's nearest and dearest relatives in France (2,7) |
| EXISTENCE | Being awfully nice with exes? About time! |
| REPRESENT | The Queen returns with gift to exhibit (9) |
| SOMEWHERE | Total to exhibit, we hear, in an unknown place (9) |
| COWARDICE | Writer Noel in charge beginning to exhibit spinelessness (9) |
| ETIQUETTE | Extraordinarily quiet alien retiring after starting to exhibit temper. That's manners... (9) |
| DECIDE | Cut up, start to exhibit resolve (6) |
| SUSPENSE | South American writers start to exhibit tension (8) |
| STOMACHACHE | Suffer drinking tea and start to exhibit pain |
| SPITE | Show offensive behaviour and start to exhibit malice (5) |
