| TENACITY | Perseverance from number visiting a large town |
| NODDY | Famously agreeable bell-hatted fellow, fond of zipping around Toyland in a little red-and-yellow roadster and visiting a big-eared gnome in a fly agaric toadstool tenement (5) |
| NOVEMBER | Number visiting doctor in turn, having a bit of a fall |
| ANFIELD | Unknown number visiting away 12 (7) |
| TURNIN | Unknown number visiting European city retire (4,2) |
| TACITLY | Without words, a metal number divides a large town (7) |
| NRL | A football code from number fifty initially |
| NONET | Group from Number 10 doing a volte-face |
| CITY | A large town or populous place containing a cathedral (4) |
| SCARCITY | Drought puts a blemish on a large town (8) |
| ORBITAL | Descriptive of a road or motorway encircling a large town |
| REPORTCARD | A measure of the grades of rumour coming from Number 10 (6,4) |
| MALICE | "The ghost of a steam train echoes down my track" - line from number one song for the Jam (4, 6, 6) |
| CALLED | "The ghost of a steam train echoes down my track" - line from number one song for the Jam (4,6,6) |
| TOWN | "The ghost of a steam train echoes down my track" - line from number one song for the Jam (4, 6, 6) |
| TWEET | ... online message from number one in road racing event (5) |
| SCAT | Go away, small creature from number 20! (4) |
| TSHIRT | Top hits played with skill apart from number one (1-5) |
| PARANOIA | Suspicious tendencies of soldier from number one academy (8) |
| NOT | Negative directions from Number Ten, initially |
