| TRIADIC | Police flipped after briefly hearing about a threesome (7) |
| PATRIOT | Country devotee having point about a threesome (7) |
| PATRIOTIC | Liking country film about a threesome, titillating initially |
| RETEACH | After briefly not working, a head is in school again (7) |
| INIMICAL | Peeled lime after briefly fasting, losing fat, beginning to starve - one calorie causing harm (8) |
| EARDRUM | This is necessary for hearing about a murder (7) |
| TRIVIAL | Hearing about a little girl can be of little importance (7) |
| EARNEST | Hearing about a place to stay, in reality (7) |
| INQUEST | Hearing about a stiff gin, lead away - Queen's Head Tues. to get drunk (7) |
| ONTRIAL | Hearing about a prospective employee being checked out (2,5) |
| BEDPOST | Young socialite flipped after timber notched, perhaps |
| SLIMMER | A threesome firmly quashed - loser, big time! (7,2,3,4) |
| WITCHES | With desires, a threesome led by Hecate? (7) |
| RETRIEVAL | Second hearing about a couple of events being brought back |
| TRIBAL | Book probes hearing about a clan? (6) |
| TRIAL | Hearing about a stiff examination (5) |
| THECOURT | Hearing about a place where one can get justice (3,5) |
| AUDITION | Hearing about a trial performance (8) |
| UNAWARE | Hearing about body of diva lacking weight (7) |
| NILOTIC | Nothing to do with hearing about river in Africa (7) |
