| PEEPINGTOM | Someone spying first of pins grasped by marker of territory? (7,3) |
| COLOGNE | Note ringed by marker on the road in European city (7) |
| YARROW | Strong-scented plant, yellow, primarily identified by marker (6) |
| COUNTERPROPOSAL | Alternative suggestion made by marker (7-8) |
| ABSTAINERS | They don't put crosses on papers? Two good grades by markers? (10) |
| STRUTHIOUS | Small authenticity markers of ostriches (10) |
| HOPPINGMAD | About to explode after removal of pin? (7,3) |
| CESSION | Legislature's meeting's spoken of this yielding of territory? |
| LESEMAJESTY | What has Stuart monarch overthrown in grounds on borders of territory? |
| GENGHISKHAN | Who in history was responsible for conquering the largest amount of territory? (7,4) |
| ACRES | One's crossing river to see lots of territory? |
| STARTINGPOST | Marker of course shows first step in one's career? |
| GRACE | Kindness is the first marker of generous people (5) |
| THOLE | One of a pair of pins in the gunwale of a boat acting as a type of fulcrum for an oar (5) |
| HEADS | Schoolmasters/mistresses; compact masses of cabbage or lettuce leaves; frothy tops of pints of beer; or, the rounded ends of pins (5) |
| DOTMATRIX | Method of printing consisting of lines of pins (3,6) |
| CAIRN | Marker of a pile of stones (5) |
| CUSTOM | Singular marker of infinitive in Latin with conventional usage (6) |
| OBVIOUSLY | Old boy, very sneaky, gets round Harvard's marker of course |
| TOMBSTONE | Doctors, in sum, given to single marker of death |