| STALINGRAD | Old Russian city street and a girl struggling to follow it |
| STRIGIL | Sit with girl struggling to get skin cleaner |
| KVASS | Fermented rye drink, sold from tanks in Russian city streets |
| RICKSHAW | Saw hick struggling to follow king in a two-wheeled passenger vehicle (8) |
| IBSEN | Benjamin's struggling to follow one specific author (5) |
| LOGARITHM | Girl struggling with a lot of maths accepting old aid to calculation |
| BLOCKPARTY | Reason to close a neighborhood street, and a hint to the circled squares |
| LENINGRAD | Linger and move around old Russian city (9) |
| TALENT | "Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong |
| ERGO | So little work, and nothing to follow it (4) |
| DONOR | He gives a party, having no right to follow it (5) |
| SUIT | You might have to follow it; the ending to each of the asterisked answers (4) |
| MADRIGAL | Extremely busy girl struggling with a piece of music |
| STANNARY | Girl between street and a railway in mining area |
| STANDARD | Level of a street and a road (8) |
| SESAME | Name of a famous street, and a type of seed (6) |
| TITO | Old president to follow it back |
| TRAIL | But, if 24 is involved, a trapper I initially line out to follow it. (5,5) |
| PAPER | But, if 24 is involved, a trapper I initially line out to follow it. (5,5) |
| DAHL | Author who wrote about a magical peach lifted by a flock of gulls, a chocolate factory, a cunning anthropomorphic fox and a girl with telekinetic powers (4) |
