| FOOTTHEBILL | Pay for being the least celebrated act? (4,3,4) |
| HERMANNPAUL | Herr Muller, who won races on two, three, and four wheels, and still holds the record for being the oldest ever motorcycle world champion. (7,4) |
| UNDERFOOT | Junior to pay for being inconveniently in the way (9) |
| MAHMOUD | Iraqi striker known for being the youngest player ever to play for Iraq's national team and the team's captain for ten consecutive years. He retired in 2016 as a member of Iraq's Premier League club A |
| HANGZHOU | The Grand Canal of China, the world's longest canal, connects Beijing to which city, also known for being the headquarters of the Alibaba Group? |
| IDLEST | Iain Duncan Smith tried initially to take in the French, being the least hard-working? (6) |
| WEAKEST | Point about each king being the least strong (7) |
| LEANEST | Ena's let out as being the least fat (7) |
| CHEERIEST | He recites freely, being the least miserable (9) |
| MEANEST | Intended to keep pets only occasionally, being the least generous (7) |
| MISSIONCHARGE | Fee you pay for being allowed to go on a military recon job? |
| PRICELESS | Nothing to say how much one must pay for being so valuable! (9) |
| AFFORD | Manage to pay for being in a fad of a sort (6) |
| OPERATIC | A price to pay for being involved with music and drama |
| ENDOWED | After finale, was obliged to pay for being gifted (7) |
| CHARGED | Had to pay for being loaded (7) |
| DELFT | Town of the SW Netherlands famous for being the birthplace of the painter Jan Vermeer (1632-75) |
| PROTECTOR | "Cowboy Carter" song for which Beyonce's 6-year-old daughter Rumi just set a new record for being the youngest female ever to chart on the Billboard 100 |
| DINANT | Belgium's "sacred valley" city, noted for fine medieval brassware, exceedingly hard honey biscuits and for being the birthplace of (the) Sax (6) |
| SEXIEST | No prison for expressionist for being the most attractive (7) |
