| IRRITATE | One Republican woman, extremely tense, getting bug (8) |
| TEACHER | Instructor, extremely tense, getting pain by river (7) |
| DEMENTED | Distraught soldiers, tense, getting into action (8) |
| FATHERLY | Stout woman's extremely lazy, like her dad? (8) |
| OVERATE | Ring given to woman, extremely tense, having consumed too much (7) |
| ELEVATE | The Spanish woman extremely tense in lift (7) |
| BEGRUDGE | Resent move coming about for one Republican |
| HERITAGE | Is woman's extremely inept lawyer able, in the end, to get what has been left to her? |
| ELECTRIC | Charged, extremely tense (8) |
| STRUNGUP | Extremely tense - hanged (6,2) |
| ENTRACTE | Following expectations, we hear, extremely tense interlude |
| TIGHTEST | Extremely tense in spoken language exam |
| 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 |
