| EXORCISER | One downing spirits or one cutting out (9) |
| DJINN | Spirits, or one that's picked up |
| DIETERS | Ones cutting out cookies? |
| PSYCHE | Tipsy chef downing spirit (6) |
| FIREWATER | Strong liquor, whiskey drunk by one downing tree? (9) |
| ENGRAVING | Sassenachs, in short, mad about cutting out characters (9) |
| DIGITALIN | Approve of European cutting out a drug (9) |
| INTESTATE | Lacking will to use US highway, cutting out middle of journey (9) |
| SEVERANCE | Cutting out verse on topless caper (9) |
| TOPIARIST | One cutting a trim figure? (9) |
| PANTHEIST | One cutting the pants off religious sort (9) |
| TRAPEZOID | One cutting sleep a bit, rising in shape (9) |
| NEGOTIATE | Gone off with one cutting art gallery deal (9) |
| ANATOMIST | One cutting a mutated man to section bone-type? |
| PARTOWNER | One cutting round built-up area merits perhaps three legal points? |
| SHORTS | Word for trousers to the knee or higher for hiking, outdoor pursuits, school, sports or summer holidays; trunks or underpants; featurettes or other brief films; tots of spirits; or, the bran or pollar |
| SKIJUMPER | Sportsman, one cutting corners perhaps around the first half of July (3,6) |
| NOGGIN | Word, dating from the 1600s, for a small mug or wooden cup; its contents of around one gill; a drink of beer/spirits; or, alluding to said mug, one's bean, bonce, conk or head (6) |
| DOLDRUMS | Note worn-out spirits or low spirits |
| EATER | One Downing Street, no good man, a criminal (5) |
