| OSTLER | Old way the French primarily regarded a stableman |
| RUSSIANSALADS | Tolstoy is down in the dumps consuming the French, primarily saucy, dishes served with diced vegetables (7,6) |
| EYEDROP | Regarded a piece of rope as a good thing for the viewer |
| DINOSAUR | Report of restaurant customer regarded a real old fogey (8) |
| FAROUCHE | Ill at ease in equipage; French primarily, not British (8) |
| LAD | From "servant, varlet, youth", word primarily for a boy or young man but also a dashing high-spirited chap; a stableman/woman; or, a workmate (3) |
| FIZZLE | The way the French get bubbles is a failure (6) |
| EUROS | Foreign currency over this way (the French way) (5) |
| EMERALD | It's precious the way the French dream! |
| ADROIT | Skilful way the French go right (6) |
| SKITTLES | Way the French carry equipment for game |
| RESTLESS | Agitated way the French ship goes after engineers |
| STYLE | Way the French follow an animal home |
| WELLADVISED | Sagacious duke engages the Spanish stableman: very shrewd! |
| WITHDRAWINGROOM | Having something attractive at home stableman found in old part of house |
| ODAL | Old stableman returned without feudal superior |
| EVERGLADE | Marsh's eastern edge, in which stableman gets trapped (9) |
| GLADDEN | Info about stableman ultimately bound to cheer |
| TABLEMANNERS | Behaviour during meals of naughty stableman Ern (5,7) |
| STANDINGROOM | No seat here for substitute stableman? (8,4) |
