| SINGE | Non-u genius may somehow burn the top (5) |
| LOCI | Technical points genius may introduce |
| LEARNED | Genius may lend ear, perhaps (7) |
| NEWLY | Wine-like passion stood up anc just broke out of jail in summer, according to Burns the romantic (2,5,4,1,3,3,4,5,5,6,2,4) |
| STUDY | Burn the midnight oil in the den |
| CHART | Burn the first map (5) |
| REGAN | Chef Iliana with the memoir "Burn the Place" |
| EBERT | Film critic Roger who said, in his review of Burn Hollywood Burn, "The only way to save this film would be to trim 86 minutes" |
| THAIS | An Athenian courtesan who, according to legend, caused Alexander to burn the royal palace of Persepolis (5) |
| PAYMASTER | One holding the purse strings in power may, somehow, by changing rates |
| CUTTY | - Sark; named after a character in the poem Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, the world's only surviving tea clipper (5) |
| SLAVE | Burn the candle at both ends |
| FROST | He famously asked "Why didn't you burn the tapes?" |
| IDIOM | Burn the midnight oil, e.g. |
| URITE | Felicius ____ taedas, burn the torches more happily (Prop. 3. 19. 25) ... |
| GRIND | Burn the midnight oil |
| MADAMEBOVARY | Capturing rook, a bad move may somehow work |
| YOKELS | Rusticated fellows may somehow play OK elsewhere |
| ZEALOT | An enthusiastic person may somehow seize a lotus |
| NUTRITION | Diet may somehow turn one into bananas (9) |
