| DONALD | Professor a Liberal Democrat darling, embracing onset of war and becoming a statesman (6,5) |
| DEWAR | Professor a Liberal Democrat darling, embracing onset of war and becoming a statesman (6,5) |
| EDMONTON | Founded in 1795 as a fort and becoming a major fur-trading post in the 19th century, what is the capital of Alberta? (8) |
| MAKINGAPIG | Overindulging and becoming a swine (6,1,3,2,7) |
| OFONESELF | Overindulging and becoming a swine (6,1,3,2,7) |
| GOINGTOPOT | Deteriorating and becoming a drug-taker (5,2,3) |
| PROFANATION | Contempt of the holy professor a country follows (11) |
| TURNINGINTO | Making a left, say, and becoming (7,4) |
| DISINCLINED | Director is in college having rows and becoming averse? (11) |
| INTENSIFIED | New diet is fine and becoming stronger |
| OUTBREAK | In error, leave to escape the onset of war? (8) |
| RIBALD | It's funny, if disrespectful, to tease a Liberal Democrat (6) |
| ADLIB | Off the cuff remark from a Liberal Democrat inside (2-3) |
| ALIBIS | A liberal democrat, briefly, is making excuses in court (6) |
| OWEN | Poet, one anguished about onset of war (4) |
| CREWMAN | Sailor can jail band over onset of war (7) |
| LAWYER | Brief film about onset of war (6) |
| NATIONWIDE | General reviewed an edition about onset of war (10) |
| WRIT | Order one to infiltrate right after onset of war |
| RAFFLES | With an ant, butterfly fish, horse race, woodpecker and the world's largest flower named after him, a statesman and naturalist who founded Singapore, the Zoological Society of London and London Zoo (7 |