| TUBTHUMP | Speak passionately, but another way, then strike (3-5) |
| PLAYWITHFIRE | Compete passionately but take silly risks? (4,4,4) |
| BARGRAPH | Catch up, then strike hard in proportional representation (3,5) |
| CUPOFTEA | One drink that refreshes but another is a different matter (3,2,3) |
| QUADRANT | Some of circle speak passionately at court |
| TOANDFRO | Tornado raging around France, first one way then the other (2,3,3) |
| REPELLED | New peer, Liberal, showed the way, then forced back |
| ENLISTED | Listened in a way - then joined up (8) |
| REPULSED | New peer, Liberal, showed the way, then forced back (8) |
| ROUSSEAU | Writer, who did philosophy the French way, so to speak (8) |
| OVERHEAR | Eavesdrop this way, so to speak (8) |
| ASITWERE | In a way; so to speak (2,2,4) |
| FORMERLY | Previously in a conventional way, so to speak (8) |
| FORKEEPS | Permanently go separate ways, then almost rush back |
| RANGE | Speak passionately about the northern mountains (5) |
| ROUNDTHECLOCK | Where a hand goes 24 times a day but another only twice (5,3,5) |
| TIE | Now and then strike match (3) |
| WAP | Pull hand back, then strike with force (3) |
| SMITE | Have me sit in it then strike it (5) |
| SUSPENDERBELT | Delay, hesitate, then strike undergarment (9,4) |
