| WELLREAD | The waterhole was coloured, we hear, was a fact most people had literary knowledge of (4-4) |
| IDIDNTLIE | "That was a fact!" |
| PAIL | Bucket faintly coloured, we hear (4) |
| CAFE | The Style Council's was coloured Bleu (4) |
| TINTED | The can Edward made was coloured (6) |
| ODEONA | Work that's outstanding, we hear, was a joke for a thousand drachmas a day (3,2,1,7,3) |
| FARTHER | Dad, we hear, was a long way off (7) |
| RUGATE | Wrinkled Matt, we hear, was a consumer (6) |
| NOTATION | People had to come back in with a system of syllables (8) |
| CAROUSED | Many disturbed when people had a drunken party (8) |
| WELLBRED | Blue-blooded waterhole with the sound of dosh (4-4) |
| FALLGUYS | People had trips, with stay included |
| GATHERED | Realised people had to get together, having increased speed (8) |
| MEANWELL | Soldiers round a waterhole have good intentions |
| WELLTODO | Wealthy responsible for waterhole fuss (4-2-2) |
| ZAC | Sixpence we hear, was paid to purchase half of the Australian army? (3) |
| WELLHEELED | Rich, so the waterhole is fixed, we hear (4-6) |
| MILLPOND | Local fight at waterhole? It's supposed to be calm! (8) |
| SWELLING | Sing about waterhole growing bigger (8) |
| FAREWELL | Goodbye to distant eastern waterhole (8) |
