| SCONE | Poor quality link to former capital delicacy (6,5) |
| TATTIE | Poor quality link to former capital delicacy (6,5) |
| RANGOON | Drove thug to former capital (7) |
| KLEINBOTTLE | Unorthodox vessel's link to betel nuts (5,6) |
| CHAINWRENCH | Does it link to some undoing? (5,6) |
| TALKEDINTO | Persuaded to accept dodgy link, to date (6,4) |
| HASHTAG | Link to a theme involves witch's crossing close to midnight |
| LIMPKIN | Wader link to imp up to mischief (7) |
| CHUNNEL | Scrapped lunch to take north-eastern link to the continent (7) |
| LOCKINGON | Fastening securely to a tenuous link to the Congo (7,2) |
| TOREADOR | To study alternative link to caped fighter (8) |
| HELSINKI | He is working out link to capital (8) |
| ACRIMONY | No end to crime after middleman is only missing link to bitterness (8) |
| ARMINARM | Looking back, ran down middle of road to address anonymous link to those who are intimate (3,2,3) |
| READLIKEABOOK | Easily understand someone's real motivations to flick through link to IKEA manual (4,4,1,4) |
| GOLDENHANDSHAKE | Goes over ship's record to study the crew's link to fish - the type produced by Midas as a payoff? (6,9) |
| ABABA | Capital city with a light rail system and a standard gauge link to Djibouti (5, 5) |
| CONNECTICUT | Part of 8-down makes link to one score (11) |
| LADEN | Osama bin ___ (possible link to suspected Algerian terrorists) |
| MODEM | Your computer's link to the world |
