| CAIRNGORM | Racing around, Frenchman is after gold and smoky quartz (9) |
| SMITH | It comes after gold and silver |
| TAMIL | The first trouble around Frenchman is the language |
| IGNORANCE | Another one racing around, showing lack of knowledge (9) |
| AGINCOURT | Henry V seen out racing around the battlefield (9) |
| CARPETING | Severe reprimand for dog, perhaps, racing around outside (9) |
| DISEMBARK | Racing around, biker's mad to get off (9) |
| AUTOCROSS | Timed motor-racing around a course of rough or unfinished terrain, originating in Britain in the early 1950s (9) |
| SANMARIOO | Racing around oarsman in small republic |
| ANGIOCARP | OAP racing around tree bearing enclosed fruit |
| PALMISTRY | Trifling with Frenchman is a form of clairvoyancy (9) |
| MISGUIDED | Foolish Frenchman is escorted (9) |
| MISPLACED | Frenchman is put in the wrong position |
| MISSTATED | Frenchman is said to have given the wrong information |
| MISDIRECT | Frenchman is straightforward but will lead astray |
| MISHANDLE | Frenchman is to name fluff |
| AUTHOR | The thunder god is after gold for a writer |
| ORATORY | A conservative is after gold for the chapel (7) |
| QUARTZ | Crystal with rose, blue and smoky varieties and other forms including amethyst, aventurine and citrine (6) |
| ZIRCON | From "golden", a gem and a silicate of atomic no. 40, whose colours, ranging from clear to red, brown, blue, green, yellow and smoky, can be observed in its varieties hyacinth, jacinth, jargoon and sp |
