| TANTPIS | Time opponents seized leadership of Paris, so much the worse for Hollande |
| TANTRUM | In Paris so much drink leads to petulant outburst |
| PRISE | Force the way into most of Paris then go East |
| ICIEST | For Hollande here is most slippery (6) |
| PISSARRO | Impressionist runs into Paris so wildly (8) |
| TRIVIAL | Time opponent's taken over me is not significant (7) |
| ERA | Pitcher statistic showing how many times opponents scored (3) |
| GRAF | Upset, much the worse for wear, one's out for the count |
| PIS | ___Tant ___ (so much the worse) |
| MOTHEATEN | The team on a bender appeared much the worse for wear (4-5) |
| ALLTOTHEGOOD | Nothing for the wicked? So much the better! (3,2,3,4) |
| DOGEARED | A book that has been used so much the corners of the pages are turned down or torn (3,5) |
| TANTOUBERIOR | Born to a true rogue, I admitted being so much the richer |
| LESS | It isn't so much the French craft (4) |
| ASHE | 17-time opponent of Borg in the 1970s |
| SEINE | River which flows through Paris, then north-west through France to the English Channel (5) |
| SALEM | The first of several sultans of this name, who ruled 1512-20 and raised the Ottomans to leadership of the Muslim world (5) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
| PERESTROIKA | The policy of reconstructing the economy in the former Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev (11) |
| FAIRDEAL | The principles of the Democratic party under the leadership of US President Harry S. Truman (4,4) |
