| DYSLEXIA | Reading complaint from team detained by random delays |
| MANFLU | Complaint from team about leaders of Football League (3,3) |
| SQUAWK | Loud complaint from team not finishing work (6) |
| LOT | The making of a decision by random selection of a straw or a slip of paper etc; or, by extension, an assigned or apportioned share; or, one's destiny, fate or fortune (3) |
| CASTLOTS | Decide by random selection (4,4) |
| NOSTRIL | Opening provided by random riots in Holland (7) |
| STRATEGY | Time for example consumed by random plan (8) |
| NECTAROUS | Like delicious drink only initially imbibed by random centaurs |
| STILLLIFE | Artwork of plough surrounded by random flies (5,4) |
| DRAWLOTS | Decide by random selection |
| BANTAMBOOKS | Publisher owned by Random House |
| FIGURINE | Beset by random gunfire, I'm like a statue (8) |
| SEWN | Stitched up by random directions (4) |
| KNOPF | Publisher acquired by Random House |
| OCELOT | Cat turned green by random drawing |
| IRISE | Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978 (3,5,1,4) |
| ANDSTILL | Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978 (3,5,1,4) |
| CRIMINALRECORDS | What convicted thieves get when king's taken in by random cleric is amazing (8,7) |
| FORWARD | Dispatch impertinent player from team (7) |
| RESTCURE | Omit priest from team to get treatment for stress |
