| COUNTERATTACK | Retaliation of noble time and time again on course (13) |
| ERATO | Muse, time and time again, on Oscar (5) |
| EXTEMPORE | Out of time again on the spur of the moment (9) |
| AUGUST | Noble time (6) |
| PORGYSREVENGE | Retaliation of a carnivorous fish? |
| TITFORTAT | Retaliation of bird in place of junk (3,3,3) |
| EYEFORANEYE | Retaliation of a sort when positive votes were exchanged, or so it sounds (3,3,2,3) |
| AETHELING | Term used in Anglo-Saxon times to designate a person of noble birth, particularly a member of the royal house of Wessex (9) |
| RHONDDA | Valley and river of noble descent join up (7) |
| CORONET | My one-time mark of noble rank? (7) |
| FOODSTOCK | What the cannibal made of the captive of noble ancestry? (4,5) |
| MANOR | Way of speaking of noble estate (5) |
| AMAZON | Edges of aluminium razor shaved face of noble warrior |
| ELGIN | Earl of ---, noble who brought parts of the Parthenon to Britain |
| LADIESINWAITING | Female attendants, often of noble birth, of a queen or princess (6,2,7) |
| APPEAR | Seem to be one of noble birth, by the sound of it (6) |
| CREEPY | Oddly coy about rise of noble causing a sensation of fear (6) |
| COUNTYTOWN | Man of noble birth, yet heartless, to possess seat of regional power (6,4) |
| EARLDOM | Land of noble manner's uplifting to accept source of argument by both sides (7) |
| EARL | Male equivalent of a countess; or, in Anglo-Saxon England, a man of noble rank as opposed to a churl (4) |
