| CAPACITATE | Qualify, go one better with said film (10) |
| MAEWEST | Nuts about you, said film star (3,4) |
| SENSOR | Detection device for said film examiner (6) |
| CAPSICUM | Go one better with music about pepper (8) |
| OUTDO | Go one better with a party alfresco (5) |
| CAPABLANCA | Go one better than a more vacant-sounding chess-player |
| CRICKETCAP | Insect to go one better than sporting headgear (7,3) |
| PRALINE | Nut confection named after a French duke who inspired his chef to invent it; or, a chocolate filled with said nutty sweetmeat or with fondant (7) |
| WASH | Word, sharing its root with "water", for a cleanse/rinse with said H2O (4) |
| VERMOUTH | From "wormwood", a variety of wine traditionally flavoured with said plant along with other aromatic botanicals and herbs (8) |
| MASALA | From "mixture, ingredients", an Indian spice blend with a name similar to a sherry-like Sicilian wine; or, a dish of food or cup of chai prepared with said aromatic potpourri (6) |
| BADGES | Emblems or episemons; brooches charged with said insignias; distinctive facial features of brocks, hence said burrowers' common name; or, distinguishing marks generally (6) |
| TRAWL | A dragnet; an act of fishing along the seabed with said bag- or sock-shaped seine; thus, a thorough comb, fish or search for information, whether on the Net or in the depths of one's brain (5) |
| LARCENIST | Thief left with said fire-raiser (9) |
| TACKS | Nails with said levy (5) |
| ASSENT | Agree with said rise (6) |
| DISAPPEAR | Vanish with said paper unexpectedly (9) |
| OVERSEAS | Finished with said witnesses abroad (8) |
| RESOLUTE | Bold Rose played with said stolen goods (8) |
| NEW | Was acquainted with said novel (3) |
