| MAFIOSO | Revolutionary swallows number of sherries heartlessly with gangster (7) |
| MACARONI | Revolutionary swallows the last part of 9 across served up in pasta (8) |
| THIRSTY | Figure drinking first of sherries, dry (7) |
| LULLABY | Calm a baby heartlessly with this? (7) |
| TANTRUM | Tease heartlessly with strange outburst (7) |
| AUSSIES | USA changed sides heartlessly with folk from down under (7) |
| LEGLESS | The French, repeatedly drinking gallons, drained sherries - is this how they end up? (7) |
| ILLEGAL | Most of the problems, for example, with gangster in black market (7) |
| SCANDAL | Outrage as police officer gets on with gangster (7) |
| NUPTIAL | Regarding union input involved with gangster (7) |
| MEERKAT | Take me dancing with gangster, ultimately becoming part of mob |
| REALITY | Existence in the outskirts of Rome, Italy, with gangster moving north |
| SWIG | Drink first of sherries, something going to one's head (4) |
| ERSKINECHILDERS | The Riddle of the Sands author clinked sherries roughly (7,8) |
| BESMIRCHED | Brahms and Liszt describe him, heartlessly, with dishonour (10) |
| BYPASS | Ignore boy heartlessly with free ticket (6) |
| FLED | Flirted heartlessly with and scrammed (4) |
| TAWDRY | Shoddy to toy heartlessly with troubled ward |
| CHATTY | Talkative Tom from France will toy heartlessly with it (6) |
| WARMTH | Fight most heartlessly with husband for affection |