| TOSIRWITHLOVE | Subject of old world culture hit Oliver Twist? Oh, fantastic (2,3,4,4) |
| RELIGHTMYFIRE | Subject of old world culture hit my heftier girl, unfortunately (7,2,4) |
| SHOUT | Subject of old world culture hit close - nothing in it (5) |
| THE | Subject of old world culture hit DT then went home laughing strangely (3,3,4,3,6,3) |
| WITHTHE | Subject of old world culture hit DT then went home laughing strangely (3,3,4,3,6,3) |
| MAN | Subject of old world culture hit DT then went home laughing strangely (3,3,4,3,6,3) |
| GOLDENGUN | Subject of old world culture hit DT then went home laughing strangely (3,3,4,3,6,3) |
| ELVIS | Singer of 1979 hit Oliver's Army. ---- Costello (5) |
| HOOLIGAN | Troublemaker is in gaol - oh, fantastic! |
| CHUBBYCHECKER | What is the stage name of Ernest Evans, the man who encouraged the world to do "The Twist"? (6,7) |
| CONTORTIONIST | Does his act consist of doing the twist? (13) |
| DICKENS | Author's surname of "Oliver Twist"? (7) |
| SECONDHELPING | Not requested the first by service Oliver Twist? (6,7) |
| DODGER | Artful ___ : famous character from Dickens' Oliver Twist ? (6) |
| EMPTYHANDED | Like failed burglar, or Oliver Twist? (5-6) |
| WANTMORE | Be excessively demanding or be like Oliver Twist? (4,4) |
| ROASTBEEF | Wreckage of boats caught by rocks - subject of old English ballad (5,4) |
| MELISSA | A genus of Old World mints of the labiate family (7) |
| CHAT | Name of a family of Old World songbirds that includes the redstart, nightingale and wheatear (4) |
| DRILL | Primate of the Cercopithecidae family of Old World monkeys |
