| DASTARD | The old man gets to cuddle a heavenly body, the despicable fellow! |
| APPAL | Shock when the old man gets knocked over by chum |
| VIPER | A bit of deprivation maddens the despicable fellow! (5) |
| HESPERUS | Heavenly body the fellow's to look at endlessly (8) |
| ASTEROID | Heavenly body the result of a hormone? (8) |
| SEADOG | Sailor recalled attempts to cuddle a dolphin's head (3,3) |
| CABBY | Auntie rising to cuddle a Yankee taxi-driver (5) |
| DADDYLONGLEGS | With fielders chasing, old man gets to fly |
| PAINTER | Rope old man gets to bury (7) |
| PAUSE | Old man gets to exploit interval (5) |
| CUR | The despicable fellow could be a bit truculent (3) |
| LYRE | Instrument of Sumerian origin having a yoke, or two arms and a crossbar, projecting out from and level with the body. The strings run from a tailpiece on the bottom or front of the instrument to the c |
| BULK | From the Old Norse for "cargo", a ship's freight or hold; the volume of a great size; the main or greater part; any huge body; the thickness of paper; or, dietary fibre/roughage (4) |
| CORSAGE | From the Latin for "body", the bodice of a dress; or, a posy or small bouquet worn pinned to said garment or on the wrist (7) |
| INAMORATA | Soon despicable fellow gets a woman to have close relationship |
| BRIGADIER | This military man gets to the bridge and takes in the air (9) |
| BOLOGNA | Trim young man gets to chart a fair amount of Etna from a city in Italy (7) |
| REINCARNATION | The belief that on the death of the body the soul is born again in another body (13) |
| NEIL | Man gets to assume a submissive position, reportedly (4) |
| HESITANT | Man gets to be on bench, say, with worker of a dithery sort (8) |
