| WATERLILY | Out later, involved in scheming to find pond life (5,4) |
| PLANNERS | Park learns about new characters involved in scheming (8) |
| DROPSIN | Calls on to find pond is overflowing: rain-filled (5,2) |
| SLAVISHLY | Excessive in scheming in servile style (9) |
| WILLINGLY | Happily scheming to enrol learners in golf (9) |
| BEETHOVEN | He composed second letter, spelled out later to preserve old volume |
| DESPAIRED | Spared to die out later, so was without hope (9) |
| EXTENUATE | Unwrapped sexy item, one out later to lessen the impact (9) |
| PARAMECIA | Pond life? I came struggling under trooper who's dropped in |
| FROGSPAWN | Hand between two points under jumper? Pond life! (9) |
| NEWSAGENT | Shop pond life smuggling dope from South Africa? (9) |
| WATERWEED | Warted ewe the result of pond life? (9) |
| COMPETITOR | Entrant in race scheming to crop time (10) |
| STOUTLY | Resolutely scheming to take in a spivvy fellow |
| SANDRA | ___ Flaherty, scheming to get some money in Emmerdale (6) |
| SLOVENLY | Scheming to acquire large kitchen appliance in a messy condition (8) |
| SMUGLY | Arrogantly scheming to take in gullible victim (6) |
| ALTER | Forced to come out later, so had to change (5) |
| AFTER | A paper, in short, had little hesitation to come out later (5) |
| PILEONTHEAGONY | Phoney agent with oil scheming to magnify difficulty (4,2,3,5) |
