| BUBBLEGUM | Pop music perhaps a bit of a gas, when by Sweet (9) |
| AGASSI | Tennis-player who is a bit of a gas singled out (6) |
| BALLETDANCING | O body swayed to music, perhaps a swan near a lake? (6,7) |
| DOGOODERS | Odes or perhaps a bit of doggerel at first - they're well-meaning (2-7) |
| CHORINE | Singer and dancer having a gas when left out |
| SAGA | Epic poem was a gas when read backwards! (4) |
| FLAKE | Perhaps a bit of snow following a large amount of water |
| BEOFFWITHYOU | Go and smell, perhaps a bit of willow tree, almost in bloom? |
| INSPECTOR | Gadget, perhaps a bit different to pincers (9) |
| WHITEBAIT | Fish and wine perhaps a bit off (9) |
| PHEASANTS | Gas, when part of rubbish game (9) |
| POLITBURO | Back massage after sex welcomed by sweet redheads? (9) |
| GLAMORGAN | Keyboard played by Sweet which got broken up in 1974? (9) |
| ROUGHHEWN | Crude, when by inference? |
| CLASSICAL | Of recognized excellence, music perhaps (9) |
| ORCHESTRA | Lights initially extinguished, music perhaps turned up for its performers? (9) |
| SPAREPART | Duplicate record, music, perhaps, under box (5,4) |
| CONTRALTO | Party music perhaps raised, left to singer |
| SCUBA | Piece of kit providing a diver with a self-contained supply of breathing gas when underwater (5) |
| INCHARACTER | To move slowly when by a crater might be what you'd expect (2,9) |
