| PEARDROP | Sweet to speak of brace and bit (4,4) |
| TWO | Brace and bit used by competent woman |
| BOLSTER | Brace and bit from builder's toolbox (7) |
| PHEASANT | Known collectively as a bouquet, brace and nide, a gallinaceous game bird native to Asia but now common in the British countryside (8) |
| BASSDRUM | Singer and daughter get drink and bit of kit |
| BLUSTERY | Stormy Britpop group containing awkward set and bit of yobbishness (8) |
| BRICKBAT | Block off building with club and bit of stick |
| CATACOMB | Vault with Mexican food and bit of mescal into taxi |
| DEADLOCK | Stalemate is uninspiring and bit of a shock (8) |
| TERRIBLE | Lit with beer and bit of rum, lousy, awful (8) |
| SKINSUIT | Tight clothing hides middle of bum and "bits" (8) |
| ALPASTOR | Taco option with pork cooked on a spit and bits of pineapple |
| KEYWORDS | Significant to speak of, for openers perhaps? Yes, 500 work out their type of usage. (3,5) |
| IDLETALK | Do nothing to speak of ridiculous banter (4,4) |
| MANXCATS | They have no tale to speak of (4,4) |
| COLDFEET | Reluctance, without preparation, to speak of achievement |
| TACITURN | Disinclined to speak of it with Bill going into shock (8) |
| THEDEVIL | One to speak of? |
| AYRSHIRE | Appearance, so to speak, of horse or cow (8) |
| MORALISE | Some liar wrong to speak of what's right (8) |
