| MUSES | Thinks of the many things one could do with it (5) |
| SEALINGWAX | One of the many things the Walrus wanted to talk about with the Oysters (7,3) |
| WORRIED | Was anxious about things one could get one's teeth into (7) |
| BREAKTHENEWS | Expose story of what one could do with scoop (5,3,4) |
| SPLASHOUT | Talk a lot about strike and what one could do with more money? |
| LOOKSBACK | Thinks of the past and hopes to find support (5,4) |
| US | Maceo Parker thinks of the collective in '74 (2) |
| HITIT | "Start the music!" ... or what one could do to the finish of the answer to each starred clue |
| NIALL | One of the many spellings of families linked with Clan MacNeill (5) |
| STEEN | Dutch master of the genre scene, particularly of chaotic households that could do with a good clean (5) |
| INURN | Batting, keeping score up, one could do this to The Ashes |
| FACET | One of the many scintillating sides or visages of a crystal, gem or person (5) |
| OTHER | "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the _ pothererson." (Mark Twain) (5) |
| IRENE | She could do with some of their energy (5) |
| FJORD | One of the many Norwegian inlets formed by glacial erosion (5) |
| CHAIN | Tea at home, or one of the many restaurants? (5) |
| MIGHT | Could do with a little, you say (5) |
| BELAY | What a sailor could do with a pin (5) |
| MOURN | Think of the late or early period in speech (5) |
| HELEN | "Won't somebody please think of the children?!" speaker Lovejoy on "The Simpsons" |
