| OXHIDE | Skinny thing cross getting greeting in verse |
| BANANA | Bleat about elderly relative ('skinny thing') (6) |
| SWAHILI | Wails about getting greeting in another language (7) |
| OHIO | Rings, getting greeting in part of America (4) |
| TENBY | Different things cross can mean in Welsh town |
| INTERSECTION | Point at which things cross each other (12) |
| DOORWAY | Move irregularly, cross getting comeuppance in opening (7) |
| BONVOYAGE | Genova resort with boy getting greeting: "Safe Journey" (3,6) |
| MEDIUMWAVE | Frequency of spiritualist getting greeting (6,4) |
| HERTFORDCOLLEGE | Woman's tense and cross, getting pass, say, in the French educational establishment (8,7) |
| EXPEL | Pele, ordered to take cross, getting boot out (5) |
| POX | Italian runner cross, getting ailment (3) |
| MATZOS | Pal almost cross getting hot biscuit of unleavened bread (6) |
| APEX | Primate with cross getting to crown (4) |
| ALOHA | A greeting in Spain? On the contrary, one in Hawaii (5) |
| FERNHILL | Sailors' greeting in ugly scene in Thomas's poem (4,4) |
| ETHIOPIA | English greeting in a topi designed here in Africa? (8) |
| HOOPLA | Pope at the centre in Madrid, greeting in excitement (6) |
| SOCHI | In this way, Charlie gets greeting in Black Sea resort (5) |
| NATALE | "Buon ___!" (Christmas greeting in Italy) |
