| BETISE | Risk drugs, you say? That's stupid |
| DIGITALIS | Drug, you have to understand, is taken round country after being cut |
| JOCULAR | Scottish, might you say? That's funny! (7) |
| ILLEGAL | Suffering bird, did you say? That's unlawful |
| OFFBEAT | Rotten vegetable, you say? That's odd |
| NECTAR | Kissed 'er, did you say? That's sweet! (6) |
| OBSCENE | Boob half glimpsed, you say? That's awfully rude (7) |
| RIGHT | Put pen to paper, did you say? That's correct |
| CLOSEDOWN | Wrong dose injected into fungi, might you say? That's when everything stops (9) |
| BROUHAHA | Maybe storm in a teacup created by tea, you say? That's funny |
| CHEETAH | One pulling a fast one, did you say? That's very quick (7) |
| BUCKSHEAD | About one mile from St Agnes, the back of a truck bashed into the front of your car you say? That's terrible (9) |
| ACROSTIC | A bad mark and a good mark, you say? That's a puzzle (8) |
| ICECREAM | Everyman 'a hilarious person', did you say? That's ... sweet (3,5) |
| CLUELESS | Shed no light thus? That's stupid! (8) |
| HALFWITTED | Stopped keeping healthy to embrace women? That's stupid |
| SENSELESS | Feel inferior? That's stupid (9) |
| IGNORANT | I go without new trumpet? That's stupid (8) |
| INANE | Keeping relative? That's stupid |
| OBTUSE | Award housing for everyone in 8 9? That's stupid! (6) |