| HEDONIST | The Don is temporarily protecting a pleasure-seeker (8) |
| GADABOUT | Grandpa, oddly fit, is a pleasure-seeker (8) |
| ACADEMIC | Don is a rascal, taking the inside out of new microphone (8) |
| MERISTEM | Farmer is temporarily bagging growing plant material |
| ABERDEEN | Scottish city between the mouths of the Dee and the Don |
| TEACHERS | The Don's fixing the races (8) |
| CRIMINAL | Heads to Catania, Rimini, Imola and Milan working for The Don (8) |
| QUIXOTIC | Like Don is strangely impractical (8) |
| STRINGER | Western Bulldogs forward traded to the Dons in 2017, Jake ... (8) |
| SENTDOWN | What happened to the students when the dons went mad? (4,4) |
| WEARABLE | Don is qualified to present description of small, electronic device |
| HEDONISTIC | Like a pleasure-seeker in the disco, dancing (10) |
| STOP | Consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked, e.g. by the glottis (4) |
| DORMANT | Which word is used to describe a volcano that is temporarily inactive? (7) |
| RECESS | A period of time when a court of law is temporarily suspended (6) |
| PLAYBOY | Showman's a pleasure seeker (7) |
| REGENT | Engineers' man is temporarily in charge of the country |
| INHOCK | Where a pawn is temporarily sacrificed? |
| BAIL | One of four small bars at the Oval is temporarily free (4) |
| TEARGAS | A drop of vapour that is temporarily blinding (4,3) |