| STATESIDE | Team, say, leading in America (9) |
| CARNATION | Pink Cadillac, say, leading race (9) |
| AGINCOURT | A Beefeater, say, leading king's attendants in battle |
| SERGEANTS | French guy, say, leading soldiers? Several such (9) |
| INTESTATE | Lacking will in trial rowing team, say? (9) |
| MUTINYING | Small Greek character leading in force rising against authority (9) |
| ODOURLESS | With no trace of Les Miserables, singularly leading in the British charts (9) |
| ATTHEHELM | Leading in a race, with two males fifty metres behind |
| TOPUPLOAN | Leading in platoon, prepared for further advance (3-2,4) |
| EXPRESSIONISM | Art movement, say, leading to rise of vice in island |
| LAIRD | Nobleman's study, say, leading to degree (5) |
| TAKEOVER | Receipts exhausted, say, leading to transfer of business (8) |
| ASSEGAI | Spear produced by stupid person, say, leading to fine? |
| TOPDOG | Trophy raised by boxer, say, leading figure (3,3) |
| RYE | Sense of humour, say, leading to whiskey (3) |
| EGRET | Soak, say, leading bird (5) |
| RABBITHUTCH | Butler say leading Mrs Barker round cabin? No spacious dwelling |
| FRONTRUNNER | Self-confidence shown by sprinter, say, leading competitor (5-6) |
| IMPI | Warriors in football team, say, surrounding lawmaker (4) |
| PLASTICITY | Suppleness in final possessed by awfully good football team, say |
