| VIRTUOSO | Taking in Italy, five tours ruined old maestro (8) |
| ASISEEIT | Easiest trips taking in Italy, in my view (2,1,3,2) |
| CURATOR | Car tour ruined by custodian (7) |
| SCHUBERT | Old maestro in Bucharest abandoning a novel (8) |
| INDURAIN | Miguel, Spanish cyclist who won five Tours de France (8) |
| OUTDATED | Dude, a tot ruined old hat! (8) |
| CHESTNUT | Revolutionary stunt ruined old joke |
| BEECHAM | Old maestro taking cap off hole in device filming workers? (7) |
| TOSCANINI | Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro (9) |
| BACHELORPARTY | Male gathering old maestro and commoner up, creative (8,5) |
| COLLAPSED | Broke down in ruined old places (9) |
| RECTO | Reportedly ruined old pages in book |
| SOLTI | So, left on time with one old maestro (5) |
| CHANDELIER | Light fluffy rice inspiring old maestro (10) |
| OVERDID | Dissertation originally by old maestro, dramatised |
| MERCKX | Belgian cyclist, nicknamed 'the Cannibal', whose 445 professional wins included five Tours de France (1969-72, 1974) (6) |
| EDDY | Belgian cyclist, nicknamed 'the Cannibal', whose 445 professional wins included five Tours de France (1969-72, 1974) (4) |
| PICCHU | With "Machu", name of the iconic ruined "old mountain" or "Lost City of the Incas" in Peru (6) |
| DEVASTATED | Ruined old leader gets bill over Greece, for example (10) |
| DAMAGED | Ruined old barrier first (7) |