| MERCURIAL | Sprightly magician drops in, going round papal court |
| ALONE | Plan period of solitude in tent around back of beyond, strangely opted in going round Sunday repast at one (6,2,5,4,5) |
| INTENDTO | Plan period of solitude in tent around back of beyond, strangely opted in going round Sunday repast at one (6,2,5,4,5) |
| TIME | Plan period of solitude in tent around back of beyond, strangely opted in going round Sunday repast at one (6,2,5,4,5) |
| SPEND | Plan period of solitude in tent around back of beyond, strangely opted in going round Sunday repast at one (6,2,5,4,5) |
| CONISTON | No cost in going round lakeside location (8) |
| CYCLOSTYLING | Wasted year in going round making copies |
| POTSDAM | Very keen to pack in going round where conference was held |
| IGNOBLE | Globe, in going round, low (7) |
| TRIUMPH | Succeed in going round the bend at three miles per hour (7) |
| NOSTRIL | Engineer lost in going round route initially -- it's one of two passages (7) |
| CURIA | Son of a bitch backing sloth in the papal court (5) |
| MANCHURIA | China's part in fellow hardhead entering the papal court (9) |
| HOLYSEE | Completely grasp broadcast in papal court (4,3) |
| CURIOSA | Strange things overseas taking place in the papal court (7) |
| INQUISITIVENESS | Old papal court's cut on jailing seven in trouble for prying (15) |
| SEE | Vatican's papal court, Holy ... |
| CURIAL | Copper coin (old English) belonging to the papal court (6) |
| CURIAE | French physicist takes in key papal courts (6) |
| ABBREVIATORS | Those who shorten and formerly a college of officers of the papal court (12) |
