| SAVESONESSKIN | Sheepish type got away from Shearer and didn't break cover (5,3'1,4) |
| BIGAMIST | He made matches and didn't break any (8) |
| ELAPSES | Passes by Pele and headers from Shearer are simulated all over the place |
| WELLWORKEDOUT | Sound type got on his bike in the gym and cleverly solved the crossword perhaps (4,6,3) |
| COUNCILLOR | Short, bloodthirsty type got cold and got sick - otherwise he should be in office (10) |
| LEFTHANDED | Southpaw got away from hospital and reporter (4-6) |
| RINGER | Word with a veritable tintinnabulation of meanings from bell-toller, avian-tagger, champion shearer and doppelganger to quoit thrower, stolen vehicle and topping fellow (6) |
| ROMEO | Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard played Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in ... And Juliet |
| NORMA | ... Shearer and Leslie Howard played Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in Romeo And Juliet |
| RECLUSE | Solitary type got out of Gloucester bunfight (7) |
| OUTRANK | Be entitled to command as soldier, having got away from king (7) |
| SPED | Was an agent one got away from if one hurried (4) |
| ROOST | He got away from shooter to settle down (5) |
| OFFICER | A constable got away from the rink, right at the end (7) |
| BOGOTA | Characters in Jumbo got away from country's capital (6) |
| ESCAPEES | The ones that got away from Spanish headland with key on Sunday (8) |
| INTENSE | Deeply emotional way one may have got away from the Nineties (7) |
| ESCAPEE | One got away from European space buzzing with eccentricity |
| ESCAPED | Cat got away from the space cadet (7) |
| RELIEVED | Freed from anxiety about the first woman to break cover (8) |
