| HITCHHIKER | One getting nowhere giving people the finger? (5-5) |
| BATTLECREEP | Fighter giving people the willies? |
| GHOSTSTORIES | British politicians following 27 across giving people the fright of their lives (5,7) |
| STAGGERING | Preventing synchronisation is giving people a shock (10) |
| POPULATION | Number of people, the town's ... |
| COMEACROSS | Give people the impression, you find (4,6) |
| CHARACTERS | Fictional people, the novel's main |
| THUMB | The short, bumbling bum gets the finger? (5) |
| POKER | Where a hand may be straight, one pointing the finger? |
| BLAME | Find fault and point the finger? Yes, it could be Mabel (5) |
| IMENGAGED | Happy words spoken while giving someone the finger? |
| IGNOMINIOUS | Humiliating if getting nowhere initially, threatening to engulf one |
| ALSORAN | Took to one's heels, too, getting nowhere (4-3) |
| OFFKEY | Giving people a B when you should be giving them an A, say |
| BOSSY | Fond of giving people orders (5) |
| THEBLAMEGAME | Reckless gamble a feature of theme, when it comes to pointing the finger? (3,5,4) |
| POKINGAT | Giving the finger? |
| JEWSHARP | What small lyre-shaped musical instrument is held between the teeth and plucked with the finger? (4,4) |
| EMFORSTER | Edwardian novelist who said he was only able to write about "three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be" |
| GESTURE | New guest Her Maj upset, giving the fingers? |
