| WAITER | Queen finds delay so gets server (6) |
| WRITER | Journalist perhaps gets server to pull article for recipe (6) |
| DETRAINS | Runs into delays so gets off Eurostar? (8) |
| DOOHAN | Traffic delay. so head-on crash for Scotty player (5,6) |
| ERASER | It is ages before queen finds stationery item (6) |
| STILTS | Makes no progress in floods, so gets nowhere (6) |
| UNITES | Unties, putting it wrong way round, so gets it together (6) |
| ELECTS | Picks top off, so gets one in (6) |
| LEARNS | Finds out little initially, then gets paid (6) |
| REEFER | Therefore gets rid of hot joint (6) |
| OFLAMB | Spooner has shortage of mutton, so gets a tenderer meat (4,2,4) |
| ETHENE | Gas then gets released to yield double dose of energy |
| ISSUED | Published, then gets taken to court |
| STONEWALL | Nothing original in delay, so do so! |
| JAMES | Traffic delay. so head-on crash for Scotty player (5,6) |
| BLACKEYES | British servant now and then gets shiners (5,4) |
| OATCAKES | Royalty now and then gets hard biscuits |
| PRESUMES | Takes liberties quietly and then gets back to business (8) |
| MAZE | Mother is last to point and then gets lost in it (4) |
| BARBECUE | Characteristically, Uncle Bill starts with a beer and then gets straight to the grill |
