| GOBETWEEN | Start to gamble joining small northern broker (2-7) |
| INSPECTED | Examined one little boy, and had a new start to gamble on another (9) |
| PECULATE | Don't start to gamble - take your client's money (8) |
| SCOPE | Joining small company, half hope it will provide opportunity (5) |
| PRIVATEERS | Soldier, with hesitation, joining small capitalists (10) |
| SCREWED | Journalist joining small people in boat getting fixed |
| INVERNESS | Fashionable French writer's introduction to small northern city (9) |
| KITTIWAKE | Small northern grey gull with a shrill cry sounding like its name (9) |
| DELPHINUS | Small northern constellation (the Dolphin) whose four brightest stars form Job's Coffin (9) |
| INBETWEEN | Intermediary to gamble a little in pub (2-7) |
| RISKPRONE | More than willing to gamble |
| HUNCHBACK | It's a shrewd idea to gamble on one with a handicap (9) |
| BETROTHED | Intended to gamble on red-hot turn (9) |
| COWARDICE | A crow attempts to gamble with a lack of guts (9) |
| PLAYBINGO | Bet on brilliant leader breaking leg, then try to gamble with numbers (4,5) |
| SPECULATE | Had to gamble about clues, with Pat working it out, at the end (9) |
| SAGITTA | Small northern constellation lying between Vulpecula and Aquila (7) |
| SOCKEYE | Small northern Pacific salmon (7) |
| GEMINI | Turning, for example, to find small, northern constellation (6) |
| LACERTA | Small northern constellation (the Lizard) sometimes known as 'Little Cassiopeia' (7) |
