| SCIMITARS | Reminders of duels, including my boastful claim and swords (9) |
| DESULTORY | Rambling sort of duel's organised by Conservative (9) |
| IRULE | Boastful claim |
| INTERLUDE | Bury him following a sort of duel between other acts (9) |
| MEMORANDA | Reminders of capital city miles to the north with article (9) |
| EXCALIBUR | Recalled problem I left with expert, about cross and sword (9) |
| SPORTSCAR | One often with hood down to show proud evidence of duel? |
| MEMENTOES | Reminders of past events |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| CORFU | Greek island described by Gerald Durrell in his autobiographical trilogy including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (5) |
| PAWLETT | It was wet at the end of April in Portishead and all around there, including my village near Puriton (7) |
| SYMMETRICAL | Return writing including my revised article showing result of reflection (11) |
| ITSMINE | Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it int |
| PUTONES | Back one's claim and eat bread? (3,4,5,5,4,5,2) |
| MORALHIGHGROUND | What the righteous may claim, and a hint to the starred answers |
| CLIMAX | Summit making strange claim and getting cross (6) |
| ACCUSER | One who makes a claim - and one who copies an email? (7) |
| RELIC | A memorial of antiquity, Mallorca has many such reminders of past cultures including some remains of San Sebastian which are kept in Palma cathedral (5) |
| TAROT | Deck of cards that includes Cups and Swords |
| ADJUSTER | Assessor of claims and judge engaged by a cleaner (8) |
