| NARCISSISM | Self-regard of youth who found himself winning on the pools? (10) |
| SINKORSWIM | If you don't succeed, you'll fail - as you may in the pools? (4,2,4) |
| NARCISSUS | He saw himself as winning on the pools (9) |
| THROWN | Astonished, like the rider who found himself on the ground? (6) |
| GEORGE | Chester student who found himself at the centre of Danny Lomax's public coming out in Hollyoaks recently (6,5) |
| FLED | Was winning on the first of February and escaped (4) |
| SAMSA | Gregor who "found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" |
| OXEYE | The bovine regard of the wild chrysanthemum (2-3) |
| STATUS | Social or official position in regard of others (6) |
| UNDERWORLD | Where Orpheus found himself in the title of Jacques Offenbach's operetta (10) |
| WATERHOLES | Relates who is responsible for the pools |
| WATERSLIDE | Porridge Radio's prelude to a dip in the pool? (10) |
| ABOVEWATER | Remain solvent in the pool? (4,4,4,5,5) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| FLINGWATER | More than just splash in the pool? |
| WATERLILIES | They could come up on the pools, as it were - ill winds! (5,6) |
| DRAW | Attract a good result on the pools |
| ROTORUA | What is the town in the North Island of New Zealand close to steaming lakes, geysers and mud pools? |
| AWAY | Tom Hanks found himself Cast ---- on a desert island (4) |
| CUEBALL | It's white on the pool table (2 wds.) |
