| ANDFORTUNE | Sought by the ambitious celebrity with 28 eg, by one in Paris (4,3,7) |
| FAME | Sought by the ambitious celebrity with 28 eg, by one in Paris (4,3,7) |
| UNITEDNATIONS | Peacekeepers briefly described by one in Paris? (6,7) |
| UNEARTH | Reveal what inspires painting by one in Paris (7) |
| OUTOFTHISWORLD | Whither the ambitious flying ace? |
| THOUGHTCONTROL | Governmental restriction of ideas, eg by censorship |
| ALKAHEST | Hypothetical universal solvent sought by the alchemists, originating in the writings of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) (8) |
| GRAIL | The Holy - - -, prize sought by the Knights of the Round Table (5) |
| HIGHOFFICE | What the ambitious aspire to is a bureau at the top of a skyscraper! (4,6) |
| GREASYPOLE | Challenge for the ambitious governor disheartened by casual staff (6,4) |
| ELDORADO | Legendary city of gold sought by the Spaniards (and Walter Raleigh) in South America (2,6) |
| NAME | One sought by the cops about electronic tag (4) |
| PHOTOFIT | A reconstructed picture of a person, especially one sought by the police (8) |
| STOP | Consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked, e.g. by the glottis (4) |
| LIMIT | The sky to the ambitious? (5) |
| BEHEAD | The ambitious teacher wants to use capital punishment (6) |
| BEHEMOTH | Verbal instruction to the ambitious caterpillar: "Monstrous beast." (8) |
| VIDEOFIT | A computer-generated picture of a person sought by the police (8) |
| WEAL | Raised mark on the skin caused eg by a whip (4) |
| GENIALITY | ... good humour put back in, eg by tipsy laity (9) |
