| DEVILISH | Take lead from 15 across - it is hot and the sort of behaviour you'd expect from 26 across (8) |
| CHILDISH | Unmanly behaviour you'd dismissively believe as naive. (8) |
| TRANSIT | The passage across, it is (7) |
| STICKY | It is difficult when it is hot and humid |
| SULTRY | Disguised lust on public transport when it is hot and close |
| HOLD | Hang on to something if it is hot and ancient (4) |
| IDOLATRY | One of the heroes getting a score? The church warns against this sort of behaviour! (8) |
| ROOTBALL | Take lead from what you can see at Chelsea, mass of soil round plant (4,4) |
| FEVERISH | A rash sort of behaviour? (8) |
| UPRISING | Pigs ruin building - it's what you'd expect from rebellious behaviour (8) |
| CLERIHEW | This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I |
| ISLANDER | First person to vilify one from 26 (8) |
| AMICABLE | Friendly but can I take lead in conversation? (8) |
| WAR | English novelist, it's said - and the sort of press correspondent he once was? (3) |
| SPECTRAL | Turns up, left first three figures from 26 across with mushrooms - it's spooky (8) |
| DEADENED | Numbed by a fair amount of those from 26 across finding energy in finish (8) |
| WILDER | Billy _, director of the films Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (6) |
| LEADERSHIP | The piece in the paper on Titanic, for example, is everything you'd expect from the management (10) |
| RADISH | It is hard and when mixed it is hot (6) |
| SHINDY | A rumpus and the sort of din to be bashful about (6) |
