| NONSENSEVERSES | Some of Lear maybe serves as a clue? |
| POURPARLERS | Maybe serve tea milky, to drink right before Royal Society conferences |
| EDWARD | Tie up trailing ends of rope loosened in Lear, maybe? (6) |
| ARIEL | Character in The Tempest or one in Lear maybe (5) |
| CRYPTIC | From Greek for "hidden", a word for something mysterious, obscure, occult, puzzling or secret, such as a clue in an enigmatic crossword of the same name; or, the camouflaging colouring of certain anim |
| ALCAEUS | Poet friend of Sappho anagram of AS A CLUE |
| LATESTART | Result of oversleeping (read each starred answer as a clue for a single letter!) |
| SUEZCANAL | Cut out of New Zealand as a clue (4,5) |
| CATALOGUES | Lists got as a clue for a change |
| WRONGDOER | As a clue for "rode", it's a bad 'un! (9) |
| SPECULATE | Form a theory about unusual step in a clue? |
| ANAGRAM | A worry, having to stuff something in a clue? |
| OVERSTEP | Go too far as a clue to cats and dogs? (8) |
| LOANABLE | Can be advanced as a clue (8) |
| SURFACES | Comes up with, as a clue, "The best on board" (8) |
| NEWSITEM | Story that could be seen as a clue to Times? (4,4) |
| LEADASTRAY | As a clue for "deal", it would be deceptive (4,6) |
| HINT | As a clue it may be thin (4) |
| GNAT | Flying insect whose crotchet is a timing interval in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue? (4) |
| LEAD | Have as a clue |
