| CIRCUMFLEX | Posh male and female interrupt round 10 and 12, for example |
| MIKEGIBSON | Belfast-born rugby player who won 69 caps for Ireland and 12 for the British and Irish Lions |
| EGEUS | Father in 12, for example, to go to law, rejected (5) |
| LUSHEST | Most succulent female interrupts appetite (7) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | A measure of wind velocity, 0 for calm and 12 for hurricane (8,5) |
| ADVERB | Bad novel about retired priest - twelve for example |
| SHORTBREAD | Named for its crumbly texture and said to have been invented or refined by Mary, Queen of Scots, a rich, buttery biscuit in the form of a finger, petticoat-tail or round (10) |
| CHARLESTON | Dance scene in 3 12 in case ferryman comes round (10) |
| DEFAMATION | Result of having falsely named one "fat" and "round" (10) |
| INTERPRETS | Translates from French and the printers swarm round (10) |
| CURTAILING | Shortening the end and making it better all round (10) |
| CHARIOTEER | Ben Hur for one a wildly enjoyable event - applause all round (10) |
| CIGARETTES | Camels, say, in animated CGI, and a dog turning round (10) |
| PENNYBLACK | Miniature portrait of Victoria, 12 for a 17? |
| CONVERSELY | Conservative only taking poetry the other way round (10) |
| VERMICELLI | Pasta poor church creatures fed to sick clergyman coming round (10) |
| INAPPOSITE | Unsuitable to assume a pine would grow round (10) |
| REVERSIBLE | Able to be turned the other way round (10) |
| PIGEONHOLE | Characterise type of camera, capturing nothing, say, the wrong way round (10) |
| SCEPTICISM | Disbelief in my first sect pics I passed round (10) |
