| OSSIAN | One's very much bowled over by an Irish poet |
| ASTUTELY | Shrewdly arranged by an Irish poet, ultimately |
| ERIN | Ireland, to an Irish poet |
| SITTINGDUCK | Nothing supporting meeting, one's very much exposed to criticism (7,4) |
| ABSENCEMAKESTHE | Where demonstrators face bank, ghee is thrown: so one's very much 3 when 12 (7,5,3,5,4,6) |
| INANIMATE | Spiritless detainee visited by an Irish leader |
| IONA | Scottish island settled by an Irish abbot |
| POSSESSED | Taken over by an evil spirit |
| NIAGARA | A flower turned over by an artist (7) |
| EMPIRE | Territory ruled over by an Emperor (6) |
| BEAUFORT | Scale of wind speed devised in 1805 by an Irish officer in the Royal Navy, and named after him (8) |
| ADORER | One very much likes fuss over ace crowd-puller, last of all |
| SUBSIDEINTO | To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter |
| GIOCOSO | Game company bringing in one very much in cheerful style |
| TWIN | One very much like another in the severest winter |
| HATES | What Les heads off one very much dislikes (5) |
| ISOZYME | Protein, one very much unknown, with unknown mass and energy |
| SEED | Children, one very much fancied |
| ISOLATE | One very much dead in quarantine |
| RIGHTHANDMAN | One very much relied upon |
