| ROTATORY | Nonsense a politician's spinning? |
| TORY | Politician spinning 50 percent of tommyrot |
| FAD | From a term for trivial matters or nonsense, a word for a fashion, a fleeting craze, a furore or a whim (3) |
| FUDGE | Word for nonsense; a piece of stop-press news or the box left blankin a newspaper for thus; or, a soft confection flavoured with chocolate, clotted cream, rum or vanilla (5) |
| FLAM | Drum rudiment consisting of two almost simultaneous strokes; or, dialect for drivel, a falsehood, an idle fancy, nonsense, a trick or a whim (4) |
| ENSEAL | Authenticate a piece of nonsense a little reluctantly (6) |
| MARKANTONY | a One of Julius' generals, like a monk at yarn spinning? (4,6) |
| COCKADE | A feather in one's cap? Nonsense, a hollow debacle |
| WHISKEYFLAX | What might have a person spinning? |
| DETONATOR | Nonsense a daughter raised about public school cap |
| HUMBUG | Nonsense; a sweet |
| BLATHERSKITE | (Person talking) nonsense - a Lettish berk (anag) (12) |
| ROTATED | Nonsense a young lout spun (7) |
| MILLIMETRE | Philosopher finds it mere nonsense, a tiny bit (10) |
| ROTTEN | Nonsense. A number are bad (6) |
| TOSH | Nonsense. A hard drinker knocks it back (4) |
| MALARKEY | Nonsense a learner put in to spoil explanatory diagram (8) |
| ROULETTETABLE | Better sitting here when the wheel is spinning? |
| EKING | European civil rights campaigner spinning? |
| FERRISWHEEL | Where fliers are spinning? (6,5) |
