| FORELIMB | Noted window cleaner almost catching priest's member (8) |
| CHARLES | B without a cleaner, almost (7) |
| DOTTEREL | Valley almost catching aquatic mammal (8) |
| SQUEEGEE | Sweden's ruler losing new letter for a window-cleaner (8) |
| PICARESQUE | In Montreal, almost catching one cab, almost like Don Quixote (10) |
| LADS | Boys and girl almost catching daughter (4) |
| JANIZAR | Antipodean soldier almost catching one held by junior Turkish one earlier |
| CENTAUR | Part of Roman army almost catching a mythical creature |
| NACHO | Chip, neat, almost catching hole, others teeing off? |
| SPACESHUTTLE | Challenger was one small step closer, almost catching learner |
| CORPUSCHRISTI | Rozzer has run inside: crime writer almost catching us in college |
| TAPETI | Dog almost catching favourite rabbit (6) |
| WATERPOLO | Defeat almost catching people out, initially, in sport (5,4) |
| ORION | Hunter, or one almost catching one |
| LABOURERS | In Paris, the stock exchange almost catching royal staff engaged in graft (9) |
| TIM | Window cleaner with whom Sally Webster shares a house on the cobbles (3,8) |
| KICKEDTHEBUCKET | What the clumsy window-cleaner did on departure? (6,3,6) |
| CHAMOIS | Sure-footed window-cleaner (7) |
| WIPER | Window-cleaner seeing someone drying off? |
| STRUNGOUT | High sturdy walls the usual support for a window cleaner? |
