| TREMBLE | Onset of myasthenia embodied by sharp tremor (7) |
| INGROWN | Heard in the throes of painful utterance - could have been caused by sharp nail? (7) |
| SCRATCH | Mark made by sharp point (7) |
| PIANIST | One's grand airs punctuated by sharp depressions? |
| PITCHIN | Caught by sharp fastener, desire help (5,2) |
| AVOWALS | Open declarations of war primarily embodied by firing a salvo (7) |
| SHELLAC | Old record of eternal damnation being embodied by fire without end (7) |
| MISUSER | Complex issue embodied by Mr Alec d"Urberville? (7) |
| NEGLECT | Slight cold embodied by gentle shivering (7) |
| SEMINAL | Influential artist embodied by Spall occasionally (7) |
| ETHICAL | Moral here in Rome embodied by fantastic tale (7) |
| ARTDECO | Style embodied by the Chrysler Building |
| NATURAL | It is not affected by sharp or flat (7) |
| TWOANDTWO | Pair of braces put together by sharp-witted (3,3,3) |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Deception caused by sharp look? (7,8) |
| PIPING | Animal poked by sharp object, shrill of voice (6) |
| LASTDITCH | Eleventh-hour note by daughter beset by sharp side pain (4-5) |
| PLAYINGFOR | As the Famous Five were in the forties and fifties, foiling by sharp manoeuvring (7,3,4) |
| HIBS | As the Famous Five were in the forties and fifties, foiling by sharp manoeuvring (7,3,4) |
| SEEHERE | Hassled sheepshearer not influenced by sharp look (3,4) |
