| SILLYPOINT | The man in the field's foolish remark (5,5) |
| INANITY | Foolish remark |
| ZANY | Left-field - foolish (4) |
| INANITIES | Foolish remarks asinine, beastly, it must be admitted (9) |
| COVERPOINT | Man in the field must have peak on cap |
| EXTRACOVER | Additional insurance for a man in the field? (5,5) |
| HARVESTING | Unfortunately starving, he did some work in the fields (10) |
| BABAORILEY | Song that begins "Out here in the fields . . ." |
| RAIDS | The man in the field (5) |
| LETSLIP | Fail to keep Secret Service man in the field |
| LONGSLIP | Polling's upset man in the field, once |
| SLIP | An error made by a man in the field (4) |
| LONGOFF | Tall aristocrat has no time for man in the field (4,3) |
| MEADOWS | Trouble in the street or in the fields |
| GIBBS | Working at Stowe House after John Vanbrugh's death in 1726, architect who designed the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford and St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (5) |
| MARRINER | Neville --, conductor and violinist, the founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (8) |
| NEVILLE | Founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra in 1958 (7,8) |
| NEVILLEMARRINER | Founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra in 1958 |
| GOLDFINCH | Colourful bird that is plentiful in the Balearic Islands, especially in the fields of Mallorca where it likes to eat thistle seeds (9) |
| LARKSPUR | Plant, also known as delphinium, whose arrays of pink, blue, purple and white flowers feature in the classic English country garden, but can also be seen in the fields and gardens of Mallorca (8) |