| TOPING | Superior pub, mostly good for boozing |
| GUITAR | Stringed instrument mostly good for Scottish sailor |
| NEPOTIC | Drink over in prison mostly good for one's blood |
| GENERIC | Mostly good for heredity analysis, but not specific (7) |
| JOINERY | Ordinary chap, outside pub mostly, tracks chippy's trade? (7) |
| CANINE | Stick around pub, mostly, like a setter |
| EPISTEMOLOGISTS | Simple test is mostly good base for philosophers studying knowledge (15) |
| INVADER | One taking over country pub mostly has very top grade wine served up (7) |
| RUSSELL | Collapsed going round pub - mostly Russian joint leader of Scotland in the Six Nations (4,7) |
| FINN | Collapsed going round pub - mostly Russian joint leader of Scotland in the Six Nations (4,7) |
| INKLING | Tattoos ___ mostly good idea (7) |
| DECRYPTING | Cracking study about this clue type, mostly good |
| DEBUG | First attempt mostly good? Correct (5) |
| OOVTIT | Mostly good doctrine reversing crime in crowd |
| BONISM | Mostly good doctrine reversing crime in crowd |
| DAPPLING | Spotting row containing fruit, mostly good |
| CYNIC | Sceptic in Cyprus, mostly good-natured (5) |
| NOGOAREA | New arena mostly good in bad region (2-2,4) |
| PANIC | Fear of 4ac's mostly good (5) |
| GENERALLY | Mostly good time had by Enfield students at the end of the day (9) |