| EARMUFFS | They're warming to those hearing things from listening devices about 1,000 paramilitaries (8) |
| PHONETAPPING | Eavesdropping for a gent covertly hearing things from others online? (5,7) |
| HEARINGAID | Session gets help from listening device (7,3) |
| CONTACTLENSES | Vision-correcting devices about which Leonardo da Vinci, Rene Descartes and Sir John Herschel theorised before the first successful versions were made in 1888 (7,6) |
| AUDIENCE | Those hearing papal reception (8) |
| LISTENERS | A record to sneer about for those hearing voices |
| SHOWWITHINASHOW | Dramatic device about which Hamlet says "The play's the thing ..." |
| REMAINDER | Mnemonic device about a rest (9) |
| OTOSCOPE | Nothing to sweep for taking a look at hearing things (8) |
| CHEATING | Warming to cabinet initially bending the rules? (8) |
| PSYCHICS | Do they really hear if anyone's there or are they hearing things? (8) |
| NOBLEMAN | List about 1,000 following head count, perhaps (8) |
| ROCKSTAR | Plant, say, about 1,000 new carrots (4,4) |
| ARIZONAN | Turns up grandmother from Australia joined paramilitaries - with one of those from the city synonymous with The Rising? (8) |
| IDITAROD | Annual event covering about 1,000 miles |
| RARITIES | Writing to paramilitaries in retrospect with affiliations to very uncommon types (8) |
| CALAMARI | Untroubled about a bunch of paramilitaries giving up with those battered types who came off the boat at sea (8) |
| PIRANHAS | Paramilitaries from north contact Haass reportedly? There is something ferociously fishy about them! |
| DANDRUFF | Daniel goes to medic before joining paramilitaries - it's a bit flaky at the top! (8) |
| MANDARIN | Frenchman overturns court evidence to back paramilitaries for new Chinese official (8) |
