| CLOTHESPEG | To help extremely clueless criminal, say, one keeps briefs on the line? (7-3) |
| REGICIDE | Serious criminal, say, one caught during bus journey? (8) |
| FILLSIN | Briefs on how one acts as replacement (5,2) |
| TEMPLE | Hired help's extremely lonesome here (6) |
| SCHOOLDAYS | Old criminal, say, taps into well before time of learning (10) |
| PEGGEDAWAY | Kept on putting the washing on the line? (6,4) |
| SLEEPERCAR | Where people drop off on the line? |
| SENTENCE | The criminal says the judge gave him one line on paper (8) |
| TOUGHIE | Criminal, say, that's disgusting; one blocking kick (7) |
| CULPRIT | Criminal, say, heads for priest, really intending to enter religious group |
| HANGOUT | Live to put the washing on the line? (4,3) |
| WASHOUT | Failure to hang the laundry on the line? (7) |
| BLOWDRY | How to use wind on the line? Could be hair-raising! (4-3) |
| WASHEDOUT | Like the tired-looking clothes hanging on the line? (6,3) |
| SHORTLISTING | Bringing down the candidates to brief on record in Germany (12) |
| HANGINGUP | Getting off the line OR putting on the line? |
| WASHDAY | Spooner's cash balance when things may be on the line? (7) |
| FILLIN | Brief on how to deal with the forms (4,2) |
| RUMPOLE | Upper-class politician in part that's brief on TV (7) |
| ASYSTOLE | Criminal say, slipped producing heart-stopping situation |
