| CHEERLESS | Not so much applause for this weather (9) |
| SHOWSTOPPER | Item getting so much applause as to interrupt proceedings |
| LONGBOW | Protracted acknowledgment of applause for this old weapon (7) |
| LIGHTNING | This weather phenomenon, when lubricated, indicates speed (7,9) |
| COLDFRONT | Might warming cups offset this weather feature? (4,5) |
| OVULATION | Applause for restrictions on extremely unethical egg production (9) |
| JAZZHANDS | Rounds of applause for the Utah players? |
| RUMMYHAND | Strange, my getting applause for winning set of cards (5,4) |
| RIPPLE | A little wave is not much applause (6) |
| GREASED | This weather phenomenon, when lubricated, indicates speed (7,9) |
| SWEAT | This weather is too much -- get agitated (5) |
| HAIL | But this weather usually is not welcome (4) |
| CLAPPEDOUT | Exhausted by too much applause? (7,3) |
| OVATION | Style too vain to give rise to much applause (7) |
| OVATE | Receive with much applause that graduate from the Eisteddfod (5) |
| HOMICIDE | Activists want a certain charge laid against government for knowing lives could be lost in the next climate disaster but doing little or nothing to mitigate against this weather crisis. (8) |
| THUNDER | Aristotle thought that this weather phenomenon was the result of colliding clouds |
| TORNADO | This weather phenomenon is a popular variety of cherry tomato (7) |
| ELEMENTS | It takes men of steel to go out in this weather (8) |
| OVERCAST | Do fishermen try too hard in this weather? (8) |
