| CONVERTATRY | Score with the cryptic clue for 'tray' |
| BIODIVERSITY | "Obi", the cryptic clue setter's way to show nature's rich mixture? (12) |
| IHAVENTGOTACLUE | Can vague toil with the cryptic lead to this admission? (1,6,3,1,4) |
| TWENTY | Score with the previous clue? (6) |
| CENSOR | He examines books and the like to score with the North perhaps? (6) |
| BONSAI | What word combines the Japanese words for "tray" and "planting"? (6) |
| ENIGMATIC | Gain time solving first of the clues in the cryptic (9) |
| THREESCORE | Sixty could be right for the cryptic crossword compiler! (10) |
| RESOURCEFUL | Good at coping with cryptic clue, for sure |
| SEERED | Get furious with cryptic clue for 'rent' (3,3) |
| LETRIP | Get furious with cryptic clue for 'rent' (3,3) |
| SALVER | One putting money aside, pounds included, for tray |
| CALASH | He puts money by - about a pound - for tray (6) |
| AUSTERITY | Difficult conditions for tray - use it another way |
| SORROWS | Woes of missing down clue at first in the cryptic crossword (7) |
| TORQUEMADA | Pseudonym used by Edward Powys Mathers, inventor of the cryptic crossword |
| SWORDPLAY | Small joy of the cryptic crossword, a dangerous game? |
| STANDING | Sting is the cryptic outcome of this still |
| CODES | The cryptic messages of many poems (5) |
| ETCH | Mark originally created 'Cracking The Cryptic' |
