| WOODLOUSE | Slater would say use local openers first (9) |
| IMPLORE | Beseech one parliamentarian to use local knowledge |
| HOUSE | Hospital uses local with disorder for professional visits (5,5) |
| CALLS | Hospital uses local with disorder for professional visits (5,5) |
| SPORTSWEAR | Trainers, say, use strong language after second drink (10) |
| BOYSINBLUE | Indian cricketers, say, use lobby in trouble (4,2,4) |
| ELECTROMAGNETS | Choose dismissed captains of industry, they say - use them to provide current flow (14) |
| AMISS | Dennis ..... , England Test cricket opener; first man to make a century in an ODI, against Australia in Manchester in 1972 (5) |
| CHICKPEAS | Choose diary product, as Spooner would say, or vegetables? (9) |
| ELUCIDATE | New clue, I would say; at the end explain (9) |
| BREADLINE | People getting free food, slugs and salty water, as Spooner would say (9) |
| CROSSEYED | Angry, I would say, seeing double (5-4) |
| EAGLEEYED | Keen-sighted golfer's achievement, I would say |
| BOARSHEAD | Frost's resting place, as Spooner would say (5,4) 57, |
| ALLOTMENT | Where Walford woman Jean Slater first met Ollie Walters (9) |
| SUPERGIRL | 1984 action film starring Helen Slater in the title role (9) |
| INNISFAIL | Home town former Queensland rugby league superstar Billy Slater (9) |
| TAYLFORTH | Gillian ___, legendary EastEnders actress who plays Jean Slater (9) |
| HAWTHORNE | Creepy teacher who bought trainers for Lily Slater in EastEnders (9) |
| CHRISTIAN | Broken Arrow star, ... Slater |
