| TITLES | Ranks Scrabble letters required in 'tango'? The opposite (6) |
| SCINTILLA | Small Liverpudlian singer inspiring in tango? Just a little |
| SUBZERO | Last letter required to fill old puzzle, flipping bitter! (7) |
| ASPIRATE | Letter required when appropriate? (8) |
| UBOAT | Snake in posh tango the main threat? |
| DADS | Roy and Silo, to Tango the penguin |
| TRUDGE | Tread heavily in tango with Barnaby in a novel (6) |
| NOUGAT | There's something sweet you heard, in tango dancing (6) |
| TETHER | Lead, say, in tango number (6) |
| TWITCH | Move involuntarily in tango with enchanting female (6) |
| TRAGUS | Hearing organ's part in tango make sweet backing |
| TIMING | Tango? Current male popular, having good co-ordination (6) |
| TOUCAN | One with a colourful beak who can tango? (6) |
| OBOIST | One playing instrument made from old French wood - tango? |
| DOTHEY | Party tango? Dance currently amid vulgar bit of revelry miscast awfully with no end of music as seasonal song (2,4,4,3,9) (2,4,4,3) |
| ARC | "C" for example found back in Scrabble letters |
| PITILESS | Harsh hiding Scrabble letters among foreign ones |
| MOZAMBIQUE | Only nation spelled with two 10-point Scrabble letters |
| FUTILE | Not many say Scrabble letter is pointless (6) |
| TILE | Scrabble letter left in game (4) |
