| RIGHTHANDERS | Rocky hardens after one of the digs from orthodox fighters (5-7) |
| LILY | Actress James of The Dig |
| TENURE | Harden after short time in occupation |
| GRUBSUP | Digs from the earth, and 'Dinner is served' (5,2) |
| TENANT | I take digs from granny that's offensive all round! (6) |
| HERETICAL | Departing from orthodox teachings (9) |
| HERESY | Dissent from orthodox belief |
| GUERNSEYLILY | Plant with Large heads of pink flowers named after one of the Channel Islands (8,4) |
| HAMMEREDHOME | Stressed and drunk in the local getting the digs? (8,4) |
| KALE | Leafy brassica with a curly variety and the Tuscan lacinato or cavolo nero; or, from the ancient Greek meaning "beauty", a moon of Jupiter named after one of the Charites or Graces (4) |
| APPLLO | Butterfly in the swallowtail family, named after one of the Olympians of the Greek Pantheon (6) |
| HYPERION | Named after one of the 12 Titan children of Gaia, a moon of Saturn (8) |
| PORTHOS | J M Barrie's Pyrenean Mountain dog in the 2004 film Finding Neverland, named after one of the Three Musketeers (7) |
| MANHATTAN | Popular cocktail which is named after one of the boroughs of New York city |
| AMP | SI base unit, named after one of the discoverers of electromagnetism |
| JERSEY | Breed of dairy cattle named after one of the Channel Islands (6) |
| ATHOS | Rudolph Bloom's dog in James Joyce's Ulysses, named after one of the Three Musketeers (5) |
| HECK | The ____ reaction is named after one of the 2010 Nobel awardees, and refers to a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between alkenes, and aryl or vinyl halides (or triflates) |
| TURN | Revolution in Italian city after one of the Romans is ousted (4) |
| LIMERICK | Stack is after one of The Greens in Munster (8) |
