| TAKEBYSTORM | Rapidly achieve success in, and a description of the juxtaposed circled words at the top of the puzzle |
| SELLBYDATES | Labels on grocery store products, and a description of the juxtaposed circled words on the right side of the puzzle |
| TRIALBYFIRE | Pressure-filled ordeal, and a description of the juxtaposed circled words on the left side of the puzzle |
| IONTRANSFER | Chemical reaction phenomenon, and what occurs in four symmetrical pairs of long answers in this puzz |
| CRYPT | Puzz to crack |
| MAKEAKILLING | Rapidly achieve great profit |
| BRINGUPTOSPEED | Loop in, and a hint to the progression found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| HITTHEHEADLINES | Success with words at the top to get attention in the media (3,3,9) |
| GOFAR | Achieve success in work at an agricultural establishment for the most part (2,3) |
| TODO | Words at the top of a chore list |
| HEADING | Words at the top of a page, paragraph, chapter etc. (7) |
| SEEME | Ominous words at the top of a graded exam |
| JAMESBOLAM | Who played Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In and a teacher in The Beiderbecke Affair? (5,5) |
| COLLAGES | Art works in which pieces of paper, photographs and other material are juxtaposed and glued on a surface (8) |
| ARREST | Run in, and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| ONAWING | "With our full crew aboard; And our trust in the Lord; We're coming in ... and a prayer" (2,1,4) |
| OPENSEASON | Period when criticism might pour in, and a hint to the words that bookend the starred clues' answers |
| HOPEFUL | One trying to achieve success in a particular career, competition or election (7) |
| POINTILLISM | Technique of painting elaborated from impressionism in which dots of unmixed colour are juxtaposed on a white ground (11) |
| FERRET | Do wrong and the eft will go in and a rabbit hunter will come out |
