| LOADEDQUESTIONS | Queries designed to make a point |
| ARROWHEAD | Hear a word designed to make a point (9) |
| CASHGRAB | Project designed to make a quick buck |
| RIPOSTE | One poster designed to make a quick, clever reply (7) |
| PRACTICALJOKE | Prank designed to make a fool of its victim (9,4) |
| POTBOILER | Book of little merit designed to make a quick profit (9) |
| RATTLE | Baby's toy designed to make a noise when shaken (6) |
| POMADE | Oil- or water-based ointment for the hair designed to make it slick and easy to style (6) |
| BALLOTPAPER | It's designed to make people cross (6,5) |
| COMMERCIALISED | Cooked mice sold around old kingdom, designed to make money |
| SHOW | _ cars, vehicles designed to make an exhibition of themselves (4) |
| PRESENCE | Beforehand, scene was designed to make an appearance (8) |
| ERGONOMIC | Effectively designed to make comer go in (9) |
| BARB | Backward-facing projection near the end of an arrow, fish-hook etc. designed to make extraction difficult (4) |
| LUBRICATE | Posh bishop cuts article designed to make things run smoothly (9) |
| CHANDRA | Launched from the space shuttle Columbia in 1999, this U.S. observatory was designed to make high-resolution images of celestial X-ray sources. (7) |
| OILTHEWHEELS | Whole heel? It's designed to make things run smoothly (3,3,6) |
| CATSUITS | Skintight body stockings designed to make their wearers look sleek, slinky or stealthy, like felines (8) |
| PENCILSHARPENER | It's used to make a point by a writer keen to back Descartes (6,9) |
| SHARPENER | It may enable a writer to make a point (9) |
