| OCCASION | No, I executed anarchist backing event (8) |
| INCHOATE | Undeveloped? No, I teach like this (8) |
| DERISION | Mockery or send-up? No, I became a father (8) |
| NOISETTE | No, I set test to show some cut of meat (8) |
| DONATION | No, I don't accept a gift (8) |
| HOOLIGAN | A thug, the lag? Oh, no; I reformed him (8) |
| NOSEDIVE | Take the plunge suddenly? No, I have to get around Home Counties date initially (8) |
| COLONIAL | Local? No, I settled |
| SARDONIC | Cutting cards? No, I shuffled |
| RIGHTNOW | "No, I meant tomorrow ... duh!" |
| RALEIGH | Favourite of Elizabeth I executed for treason |
| LAUD | William ---, Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I, executed in 1645 (4) |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I executed in 1601 (5) |
| UNTIE | Remove ropes for stunt I executed inside (5) |
| SIMULATION | Must I get to Los Angeles? No, I am just pretending |
| WAS | "There were bells on the hill; But I never heard them ringing; No, I never heard them at all; Till t |
| TILLTHERE | "There were bells on the hill; But I never heard them ringing; No, I never heard them at all; ... wa |
| IMPROVISATION | For ad libbing, I sit, or vamp? No: I am changing (13) |
| SMILE | Lily Allen song with the lyrics "I couldn't stop laughing / No, I just couldn't help myself" |
| TEAM | No I in this |
