| MANIFEST | Obvious it's a customs (8) |
| SURVEYOR | An overseer or supervisor; an inspector of something, such as buildings, land, roads or ships; a geodesist; or, a customs official (8) |
| SEARCHME | I've no idea what a customs officer may do (6,2) |
| PATEN | Almost obvious it's a plate (5) |
| PLANE | Sounds obvious, it's a carpenter's tool (5) |
| OVERT | Obvious it's a floating voter (5) |
| WISHBONE | A fowl's forked furcula or "merrythought", named for a custom of two people pulling it apart in blithesome divination as a good luck charm; a divided spar; or, a V-shaped element in a suspension syste |
| SAUSAGEMEAT | It's a custom faced when drinking a cocktail ingredient? |
| HABIT | It's a custom to put it on (5) |
| PATENT | It's obvious it's a little knock-about number (6) |
| PANCAKES | Skillet-cooked crepes eaten on Shrove Tuesday in a custom symbolic of nothing more than indulging and using up one's butter, eggs, flour, milk and sugar before a fast (8) |
| NAUSEOUS | Abroad, we adopt a custom poorly (8) |
| SAUSAGES | Brunch meats: a custom aboard steamship (8) |
| CARNET | French word for a notebook; a booklet of tickets/transport coupons; or, a customs permit authorising a motorist to cross a certain frontier (6) |
| ABUDHABI | A custom briefly binding China to US state |
| WHATSINTHEBOXES | Question asked by a customs officer or a kid on Christmas ... with a hint to this puzzle's circled s |
| OPENANDSHUTCASE | A clear-cut decision - all one wants from a Customs official? |
| DECLARE | State openly, as for a customs official |
| IMPOST | A customs duty |
| GRIP | Does it really interest a customs officer? (4) |
