| MONKEYNUT | Seed initially knocked into gravy, someone out to lunch? |
| FERNS | Flowerless plants from every really new seed initially |
| SILENCER | Keeps it quiet taking someone out to do target practice without a racket (8) |
| KIDNAPPER | Fool, someone out to be an abductor (9) |
| INSECURE | Weak leader moved further into gravy train (8) |
| REDCURRANT | Soft fruit in the gooseberry family, traditionally served as jelly with roast lamb/venison or stirred into gravy (10) |
| SPIGNEL | Umbellifer, genus Meum, with curry-flavoured seeds - initially produced in single mutation (7) |
| SPARSE | Angry about seeds initially scattered |
| LOONYLEFT | Switching on of telly to see politicos out to lunch? |
| TROLLEY | How to get food from a waiter out to lunch? (3,4,7) |
| OFFONES | How to get food from a waiter out to lunch? (3,4,7) |
| SANEST | Least likely to be out to lunch? |
| BANANASPLIT | Sweet food, out to lunch? Student tucked into mine (6,5) |
| CUCKOO | Bird taken out to lunch? (6) |
| PROFESSION | Business person so, if out to lunch? (10) |
| BATS | Cricket clubs out to lunch? (4) |
| SALESPERSON | Who presses loan when out to lunch? I may |
| OFFONESROCKER | Presumably no longer taken with music fan out to lunch? |
| BANANASKIN | Potential downfall of family out to lunch? |
| NUTS | Out to lunch? Turn bowl over (4) |
