| RAISEDANEYEBROW | One engaged by newsreader, a boy, oddly acted surprised (6.2.7) |
| MISHALHUSAIN | BBC TV newsreader, a presenter of Today since 2013 |
| STARTED | Acted surprised when one was first (7) |
| AUTOCUE | Sounds like build-up in traffic needs to be read out by newsreader (7) |
| BADAWI | Poor article on ladies' group by newsreader Zeinab (6) |
| OBVIATED | Prevented old boy, oddly vain, with a boy (8) |
| GLADYS | Good boy, oddly ignored, eyes girl (6) |
| DISOBEY | Side with boy, oddly, and step out of line (7) |
| OBSCENEST | Dirtiest old boy's oddly clean bedsit (9) |
| IRANIAN | Queen, one engaged by body of wine, one linked to Shiraz? (7) |
| SEEFIT | Consider appropriate visit by one engaged by paper (3,3) |
| RITUALIST | One engaged by altruist misguidedly considered a conventional sort of person (9) |
| HADNOIDEA | One engaged by a head don informally was ignorant (3,2,4) |
| AUDIO | One engaged by a duo remixed sound (5) |
| ARCHAEOLOGIST | One engaged by a great school worked with digger (13) |
| SIMIAN | Monkey is brought back by one engaged by staff (6) |
| ALASTAIR | First name shared by newsreaders Mr Burner and Mr Stewart (8) |
| BRUISER | Tough one engaged by British employer (7) |
| MILLENNIA | Philosopher, one engaged by queen over many years |
| TRIUMPHALIST | One engaged by president is put in to stop gloating over victory (12) |
