| DEFRAUD | Swindle Whitehall department fund (ignoring odd bits) (7) |
| MODIFY | Whitehall department provided year to make adaptation (6) |
| COMMODORE | Officer gets extra around Whitehall department: another officer |
| HEALTH | PM once squeezed large Whitehall department (6) |
| RUINOUS | Very costly game at home against rogues, ignoring odds (7) |
| OTRANTO | Boat, ignoring odds, quickly made for port |
| DETROIT | City adventure, ignoring odds - love it! |
| THISBE | Flute part? Current issue with oboe (ignoring odd bits) (6) |
| TITHE | Old tax article about gifts, ignoring odd bits (5) |
| ODE | Ignoring odd bits of wordier poem (3) |
| EAT | Put away repast, ignoring odd bits (3) |
| UNITE | Marry fool in duke, ignoring odd bits (5) |
| DENOTE | Designate and study Goethe, ignoring odd bits (6) |
| EFFIGY | Model English females singly, ignoring odd bits (6) |
| RAITA | Ignoring odd bits, irradiate a dish in India |
| EWE | Creature ignoring odd bits of seaweed (3) |
| NANAS | Fools crazy ignoring odd bits of bias |
| PRIM | Ignoring odd characters, upbraid maiden, being starchy (4) |
| SADIE | Woman finally reads Hard Times, ignoring odd extracts (5) |
| ANKA | Singer Paul ignoring odd parts of Mauna Kea (4) |
