| EXCUSEME | Outside, copper has me taking in direction with my apology (6,2) |
| FINEBEMAD | "OK, don't accept my apology then!" |
| IOTANUBETA | My apology for this puzzle? |
| PIMENTOS | Stop me taking in something to eat (8) |
| AMENABLE | Ban me taking ale, being pliant (8) |
| PRESSMEN | Journalists insist on me taking note (8) |
| WESTERNS | Time out in One Direction, with seabirds featuring in popular movies (8) |
| MEACULPA | It's my fault copper has interrupted restaurant date with secretary? (3,5) |
| STARTOFF | Begin moving in a particular direction with celebrity, a dandy (5,3) |
| ONETRACK | England charging in correct direction with single idea (3-5) |
| HEBRIDES | Man takes new wife to One Direction with Lewis and Harris, among others, in Scotland (8) |
| VELOCITY | A measure of the rate of motion of a body expressed as the rate of change of its position in a particular direction with time |
| HARDAWAY | In a different direction, with force |
| NEWSCAST | Fresh direction with actors producing programme (8) |
| ORIENTAL | Find direction with a line - eastern (8) |
| SCATTERS | Goes in all directions with the rest cast out (8) |
| HELLENES | Girl had left in two directions with Greek characters (8) |
| ORACULAR | During exam, copper has a right to be enigmatically prophetic (8) |
| APPETITE | A copper has little desire to eat |
| PENELOPE | Religious leader takes directions with the Spanish woman (8) |
