| HONESTBROKER | Polish-Irish writer accepting brother as impartial mediator |
| DISINTERESTED | Detest insider falsely posing as impartial |
| EVENHANDED | Still passed as impartial (4-6) |
| PATERFAMILIAS | Head of house seen as impartial and safe, somehow (13) |
| ABRASIVE | A brother, as I've noted, can be harsh (8) |
| BRIDLE | Restrain brother as above? (6) |
| BRER | Slang for 'brother', as in the Uncle Remus tales (4) |
| BIONIC | Superhuman writer accepting what's charged |
| RUNSINTOTROUBLE | Brother, as it were, has a problem |
| MELODY | Air of this writer accepting rise in benefit? |
| RASHES | Hide problems from brother as he struggles (6) |
| GOESTHEDISTANCE | Writer accepting small edits can cast sticks at it (4,3,8) |
| PTOMAINE | Political writer accepting his own name for putrid substance (8) |
| HONEST | _ _ _ _ _ _ broker, impartial mediator in a dispute (6) |
| EXPEDIENT | Former writer accepting end, tense, is suitable (9) |
| SMOKE | Head of school and the writer accepting satisfactory fag (5) |
| OPPA | An older brother, as addressed by his younger sister (mostly) |
| ABEL | Cain's brother, as in the Weigela '___ Carriere' (4) |
| PARADIGM | After short display, writer's accepting German model (8) |
| BLUE | Alias of the late Ethan Williams' brother, as he tormented Warren Fox in Hollyoaks (4) |
