| CANADADAY | Nothing to stop rascal taking a year’s holiday abroad |
| SCAMP | Rascal taking a bit of shady business quietly (5) |
| INITA | Coepta, incepta; things set in motion, like New Year’s resolutions |
| ADAR | In the Jewish (religious) calendar, the year’s last month |
| HOGMANAY | New Year’s Eve in Scotland |
| GRANDSLAM | Old nan collects first impressions of Stieg Larsson, all this year’s titles |
| SATYR | Randy reveller attending second year’s gathering |
| HYSTERIA | This year’s silly craze |
| SAROS | Nothing to stop serious disease for a period of about 18 years |
| ASTHECROWFLIES | Nothing to stop fearless witch flying in a straight line (2,3,4,5) |
| ACADEME | A rascal taking English with me in scholastic company (7) |
| ACADEMIC | Don is a rascal, taking the inside out of new microphone (8) |
| CROSSROADS | Nothing to stop angry radicals in decisive moment |
| CHAPERONE | Fellow, bird ... nothing to stop them? She might have done (9) |
| SQUAREROOT | For one, one is old-fashioned, with nothing to stop decline (6,4) |
| MONOLOGUE | Nothing to stop foreign mogul, one speaking without interruption (9) |
| OBOEDAMORE | One played by ear boomed out - nothing to stop it |
| CHATROOM | Right about having nothing to stop macho nonsense in place of discussion (4,4) |
| TANADAR | Nothing to stop sailor or police chief in India |
| HOMESTAY | A holiday abroad in the residence of a local family (8) |
