| ARMAGEDDON | Piece on elderly gangster leads to the ultimate conflict (10) |
| ONEIL | One gangster leads us to Peyton Place star Ryan (1'4) |
| GRANDADDY | Dull American clothes heartless nursemaid put on elderly relative |
| SOAPS | Son put on elderly people's TV programmes (5) |
| AMPEREHOUR | Affair involving present parking going up leads to the current measure |
| ENACTMENTS | Performances, at some stage, lead to the passing of bills (10) |
| FORTYTWO | Number that's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
| ANSWER | - to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything; number 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (6) |
| NTH | To the _ degree: to the ultimate degree? |
| SOLDIER | Sold a line to the ultimate buyer in private (7) |
| THEME | Subject other people to the ultimate in impertinence |
| AVER | Dance party, with Roger transported to the ultimate state (4) |
| DEPORT | Send away to the ultimate seaside haven? |
| EKE | Stretch resources to the ultimate |
| STDAVIDS | My last boyfriend Sid had a very small place on the end of the street that leads to the station in Exeter (2,6) |
| EPITASIS | In classical drama, the part of a play in which the main action develops and which leads to the catastrophe (8) |
| TIES | Type of result that leads to the Sudden Death round on The Weakest Link (4) |
| REALM | It's true the motorway leads to the kingdom (5) |
| ANTARCTIC | A book on north polar region leads to the south polar region (9) |
| GROUND | The electrical connection that leads to the earth (6) |
