| REHEAR | Once again try to smuggle explosive in the back |
| REATTEMPT | Once again, try on matte-finished, soft shirt |
| REENTRY | Going in again; try to follow once more East and North (7) |
| THABOMBEKI | The president finds something explosive in "The King and I" ... (5,5) |
| REPRESENT | Again try to get cheque paid if one will stand for it (9) |
| THECARRY | Again try to reach tricky 8th at Woodbridge (3,5) |
| TESTBAN | Treaty barring nuclear trials puts best explosive in the shade (4,3) |
| BOOBYTRAP | Hidden explosive in the carriage of a seabird? (5-4) |
| COHERE | Stick high explosive in the very centre (6) |
| HOTTEMPERED | Explosive in the tempo, built by revolutionary (3-8) |
| DETERMINING | Resolving to prevent deployment of explosives in the main? |
| MINESWEEPING | Detecting and clearing explosives in the sea (12) |
| ATF | Org. that regulates explosives, in addition to the categories in its acronym |
| FLIGHTRECORDER | Following day, arrange again to smuggle cocaine in device aboard aircraft (6,8) |
| REEFERS | Speaks about the way to smuggle in marijuana (7) |
| FALSEBOTTOM | In which to smuggle Scotch to Belfast or Manchester primarily? (5,6) |
| NOMADIC | Prisoner's turn to smuggle in crackers with one on the move (7) |
| ARRANT | Rascally, managed to smuggle in the painting (6) |
| MEATHEAD | One without good judgment volunteers to bury explosive in grassland |
| ASHES | The remains of high explosive in a vessel (5) |