| SPIRITLEVELS | They keep the House straight initially with whiskey and a number of stories (6,6) |
| AWN | Article describing whiskey and a little bit of its source (3) |
| BOILERMAKER | Whiskey and a beer chaser |
| AVOCADOPEARS | Town in Wicklow and Hull raising units of corn and a number of fruits? (7,5) |
| FOUNTAINPENS | Do they keep the kids out of the water spouts? On paper it is where they are noticed (8,4) |
| COMPETITIONS | Change of mind leads to written protests with signatures and a number of fights in Ring, for instance (12) |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| BOWLINGALLEY | Tarzan's response to, "Hey, where do they keep the sugar on this ship?" |
| POWERSTATION | Place where they keep the electric generation plant (5-7) |
| FLOWERSTALKS | They keep the bloomers up (6,6) |
| CHIMNEYSWEEP | One to keep the home fires burning? (7,5) |
| STRETCH | A demanding task; a continuous period of time; an act of extending one's body/limbs; or, the home straight of a racecourse (7) |
| INPLAINTERMS | Conditions on home straight are clear |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| IRISH | Word linking with "setter" for a breed of gun dog or with "coffee" for a beverage with whiskey and cream (5) |
| LIVELY | Author of Moon Tiger, The Road to Lichfield and a number of children's books, including A Stitch in Time and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (6) |
| SPIRITS | They'll frighten the life out of you with whiskey and rum (7) |
| TELFORD | Nicknamed the Colossus of Roads by Robert Southey, a builder of canals, churches, roads, aqueducts and a number of bridges including one spanning the Menai Strait (7) |
| DEVON | Which horse famously stumbled on the home straight while leading the 1956 Grand National? (5,4) |
| VANDYCK | Artist whose works include Self Portrait with a Sunflower, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart and a number of portraits of Charles I as his court painter (3,4) |
