| OLDENGLISH | Saxons, for instance - or that's what they said! (3,7) |
| SELFDESTRUCT | To burst one's bubble? That's what they said would happen in Mission Impossible (4-8) |
| KINGS | Title, derived from the chiefs or "cynings" of various tribes of Angles and Saxons, for male monarchs or rexes; pre-eminent men or male animals; or, crowned draughts (5) |
| PEPPER | From Sanskrit for "berry", a word, adopted by the Anglo-Saxons, for a spice companion of salt; a capsicum; or, cayenne, derived from said pod (6) |
| LOCATE | Find Queen's nickname for Will's wife, they said! (6) |
| UNZIP | United Nations type of code, the way to access a banana so they said! (5) |
| PALINDROME | A tot, for instance, or the mum or dad (10) |
| RETRACTORS | They take back what they said about farm vehicles (10) |
| HYGIENISTS | Tories' lying has extraordinary scale: that's what they do (4,10) |
| SCAVENGERS | Refuse to eat? That's what they want! (10) |
| IMPRESSION | Is charged for stamp from the start or that's the feeling (10) |
| NEWS | Starting for all sides today or that's what's been said reportedly (4) |
| PSYCHOLOGY | The type of subject that sticks in the mind or that's the current thinking about the situation (10) |
| HARPOON | Ideal for those getting to grips with Moby Dick, for instance, or is that said to be a slip of the tongue? (7) |
| TALKING | Drunk giant swallows large cocktail or that's what they're saying (7) |
| OBIT | Nothing opens bolt in trailer or that's what was said in passing (4) |
| ARABIC | Haunted out of Chateaubriand, or that's what they're saying in Tunis (6) |
| MEATSUBSTITUTES | Beyond Burgers, for instance, or what the theme answers contain? |
| OLDMASTER | Rembrandt or Van Eyck, for instance (or one of their works) (3,6) |
| NUMBSKULL | This block head is unfeeling, or that's what we hear (9) |
