| IVOWTOTHEEMYCOUNTRY | Noteworthy vicomte, perhaps round bend, needs year to deliver hymn |
| KENYA | Mr Livingstone needs year to get to a country on the equator (5) |
| PAY | Old man needs year to settle bill |
| MODIFY | Indian PM needs year to inspire female convert (6) |
| PIGEON | Boar needs years to find bird (6) |
| MERLOT | Streep needs year off to overcome drink (6) |
| CARELESS | Hurried, having to walk, perhaps, round capital in Estonia (8) |
| LONGITUDE | Such a line to guide perhaps round pole? |
| SABOTAGE | Deliberate destruction to a base, perhaps, round third of August (8) |
| FAIR | Maybe Puck needs year off? That's OK (4) |
| HOYLE | Astronomer Fred needs year inside crater (5) |
| RAOUL | Vicomte in "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| SUEZCANAL | Waterway built by Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps |
| DAPHNE | Shrub found by Hamlet, perhaps, round the inn (6) |
| BEHOLDER | Keep bringing pints perhaps round for spectator |
| BOOZEUP | Pub tour, perhaps, round Australia and Europe is rapid hit |
| PEWIT | Bird that's something like a budgie, perhaps round the Caribbean? |
| STRAY | Wander perhaps round sides of tanker (5) |
| SOLICIT | If lost perhaps round here in France ask (7) |
| PRIMROSE | Flower, grey lines perhaps round the edge (8) |
