| BRIARS | Stickers forming a patch |
| CLOUT | A patch for mending; a nail for securing roofing felt; a target for long-distance shooting in archery; a biff or cuff with a hand; or, power or influence in business/politics (5) |
| POP | A sharp bang or crack sound, like that made when unstoppering a bottle of champagne, ginger beer, lemonade etc; any one of said fizzy beverages; an act of pawning; a papa; a pistol; or, a patch of col |
| PLOT | Word for a patch of ground; a secret scheme; a plan of a literary work; or, a storyline said to thicken when becoming curiouser and curiouser (4) |
| OILSLICK | A patch of a black fossil fuel forming a film on the surface of water (3,5) |
| HAUL | A fisherman's catch, thief's stolen batch, pull of a pumpkin from a patch or the points taken in a match (4) |
| BORNLOSER | A patch of grass and a drunkard, suggested Spooner, looking for a man who had been constantly unsuccessful (4,5) |
| DARN | Word, from "conceal, hide", for a patch of cloth mended by means of interweaving stitches with a long needle to which a dragonfly is likened (4) |
| IRONONTO | Attach a patch, in a way |
| SEWEDON | Attached, as a patch or a button |
| SEW | Attach a patch or mend a hole perhaps |
| KNEE | Place for a pad or a patch |
| EYE | Where a pirate might wear a patch |
| SEWS | Puts a patch on a jacket, say |
| ELBOW | Where a patch might be on a professor's tweed jacket |
| ALPHABETICAL | A patch liable to be arranged in a certain order (12) |
| UNDERCOVER | Where might I spy a private eye... with a patch, cloak and dagger? (5,5) |
| HOLE | What a patch might cover, on a pair of jeans |
| CAPATOOTH | A patch too difficult for a dental job (3,1,5) |
| COURT | A patch of silk and isinglass used to cover a beauty spot in the 18th century (5,7) |
