| SOHELPME | On my word, some embrace the aid (2,4,2) |
| CEDE | Some embrace devolution and hand over |
| PASSIONATE | Like some embraces |
| ALACRITY | Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right (8) |
| CHANCERY | It's risky to embrace the Queen in court |
| UNIVERSE | At university, in short, poetry can embrace the whole wide world (8) |
| NIGHTOWL | Now light fails, they embrace the darkness! (5,3) |
| INTHEEND | Mean to embrace the man at long last (2,3,3) |
| SALICLAW | Barman embraces the greatest regulation for keeping women off the throne in old France (5,3) |
| SCENARIO | Upsetting Nato, Iran ecstatically embraces the situation (8) |
| SINISTER | Hospital worker embraces the fashionable left (8) |
| BRIGHTEN | Cheer up when Mr Kingsley embraces the Conservatives (8) |
| SATAN | Word some hear in rock songs played backwards |
| MONOSYLLABLE | Short word some feel bally son omitted to send back |
| MUSH | Word some dogs understand |
| HEAP | Word, some 1,300 years old, for a mound or pile, be it of scrap or gold (4) |
| PASCAL | "By space the universe embraces me and swallows me up like an atom, by thought I embrace the universe." He was a French mathematician who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Wh |
| SUBSTANCES | The reserves embrace the viewpoint on drugs (10) |
| LITTLETOE | The Maori embrace the opposition leader going after the small piggy (6,3) |
| HUGHES | After embrace the man's someone speaking on 10 24 (6) |
