| IRRITATE | One Republican woman, extremely tense, getting bug |
| TEACHER | Instructor, extremely tense, getting pain by river (7) |
| OVERATE | Ring given to woman, extremely tense, having consumed too much (7) |
| ELEVATE | The Spanish woman extremely tense in lift (7) |
| ANNOY | Woman, extremely ordinary, getting bug |
| LOUSEUP | Botch getting bug out of bed (5,2) |
| POLEMIC | Staff getting bug possibly creates controversy |
| INSECT | Trendy religious group getting bug (6) |
| TREASURER | Official, initially tense, getting confident in the end |
| TAUTIT | Tense, getting it tangled in Scotland |
| AMY | The military sacked Republican woman (3) |
| ARGENTINA | A Republican woman burying senior officer in state |
| AMAZEMENT | Fellows in a labyrinth, initially tense, getting surprise (9) |
| CUBA | Modernist painter is tense getting off a Caribbean island (4) |
| THRILL | Piercing involves son becoming tense, getting excited feeling (6) |
| KAREN | Range of knowledge inspiring a Republican woman |
| DEMENTED | Distraught soldiers, tense, getting into action (8) |
| ROSANNA | Republican woman embracing very large female (7) |
| STYRENE | Awkwardly tense getting about your hydrocarbon |
| EVERY | Each woman extremely ratty (5) |
