| READINGROOM | Poor old dear in wedding party at the library (7,4) |
| MINDREADERS | Watch the people at the library ___ they know what you're thinking! (4-7) |
| RADNORSHIRE | Bowler, ultimately, is harder on poor old county! |
| SIXTHFORMER | Cross borne by this poor old student |
| KINGPENGUIN | Boss waiter? Could be gunning for poor old Pike! (4,7) |
| ORDEAL | A trying experience when the frantic old dear lost the dog initially (6) |
| CRAZYHORSE | Leader of the Oglala Lakota who took up arms against the US Federal government, leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 |
| MULLET | Business at the front and party at the back hairstyle in box G (6) |
| BORROW | What one may do at the library with the works of a Victorian author? |
| LIBRA | Sign in at the library (5) |
| READ | Dear! Go out and make yourself useful at the library |
| SHE | The female at the library (3) |
| MOOSE | Some mistake about the old dear, we're told (5) |
| ELDORADO | Where the doddering old dear with nothing became rich? |
| EXPENSIVE | The writer's twice following old dear (9) |
| STEPHEN | In 2009, which physicist hosted a cocktail party at the University of Cambridge for time travellers, buying in balloons, champagne and nibbles, and sending out invitations the following day? (7,7) |
| HAWKING | In 2009, which physicist hosted a cocktail party at the University of Cambridge for time travellers, buying in balloons, champagne and nibbles, and sending out invitations the following day? (7,7) |
| ODDS | What the bookie offers the old dears after Earl leaves (4) |
| READS | The scans upset the old dears? (5) |
| THUSLY | In this way son left Boxing Day party at the end? On the contrary! |
