| NOTELET | Not allowed to accept fifth-rate paper (7) |
| BUST | However, they accept fifth artist's sculpture |
| ATISSUE | First-rate paper under discussion (2,5) |
| STATIONER | Individual chasing it up, going into first-rate paper shop (9) |
| OVERSEE | Manage to convey love with poetry fifth-rate? (7) |
| BATISTE | Christian, not Penny, with fifth-rate fabric (7) |
| ELEGIST | Fifth-rate celebrities, including (for instance) John Donne? (7) |
| CARDIFF | City ace, maybe, one starts to find fifth-rate |
| TASTIER | Sailor imbibes champagne substitute - fifth-rate or more flavoursome? (7) |
| ELITIST | It is adopted by fifth-rate celebs and privileged (7) |
| TERMITE | Call it fifth-rate wood-destroyer (7) |
| EMPEROR | He rules fifth-rate politician's a gutless mistake (7) |
| DEGRADE | Disgrace of daughter given fifth-rate classification |
| ROEDEER | Beast, fifth-rate oriental in new order (3,4) |
| PREMISES | Professor beginning to be negligent about fifth-rate 11 (8) |
| TURPS | Purest, not fifth-rate, sort of oil (5) |
| EMAIL | Message, fifth-rate, man is said to have completed (5) |
| ENOW | Enough! That's fifth-rate at present |
| VEE | Letter opposing fifth-rate sweetheart |
| RUE | Feel sorry when rugby players are fifth-rate |
