| CIRCLE | Reasoning, preposterously, man-eating sharks will swim in it? (7,6) |
| VICIOUS | & 12 Reasoning, preposterously, man-eating sharks will swim in it? (7,6) |
| TOPE | A small shark will drink hard (4) |
| DOGFISH | Shark will faithfully follow one of Pisces (7) |
| JAWS | Classic thriller about a man-eating shark |
| MARK | Extremes of man-eating shark? Correct! (4) |
| NEAT | Man-eating shark swallows compact (4) |
| SEA | Mermaids swim in it, in myth |
| LIDO | Invert a daffodil, cut half off, and swim in it! (4) |
| BATHE | Graduate on time - he will swim (5) |
| MEET | An athlete might swim in it |
| EAU | Les poissons swim in it |
| RAPE | Preposterously, in one paradox, a cultivated source of oil; in another, a perfect source of vinegar (4) |
| REDSEA | Some believe it parted and dried up preposterously |
| EVILTWIN | Double faulted, preposterously as it happens, at the last moment before victory (4,4) |
| STEVEDORE | He's in the dock to wear down old soldiers preposterously (9) |
| TOMMIES | Preposterously, I am seen in scholarly books showing privates |
| KROO | In a rarely used way preposterously do West African |
| VIRTUALREALITY | Preposterously arty, evil ritual in which other worlds are 'seen' (7,7) |
| PROUDEST | Postured preposterously, having highest opinion of oneself (8) |
