| POETLAUREATES | Top linesmen are capable of doing a lot for Limerick? (4,9) |
| UPTO | Becoming capable of doing a job, so is in the running (2,2) |
| UPTOTHETASK | Capable of doing a job |
| UPTODATE | Contemporary capable of doing a romantic meeting? |
| BLANKVERSE | The linesman is responsible for this free for Limerick (5,5) |
| LINESMAN | Flags unsporting behaviour by one of those responsible for Limerick (8) |
| CUMGRANOSALIS | A sceptic's way of doing a tequila slammer? |
| SPENDINGSPREE | Exhausting peers, out doing a lot of shopping (8,5) |
| HOWLERMONKEYS | South America primates doing a lot of shouting |
| WELLQUALIFIED | It's a measure of someone getting the third degree perhaps, as Spring was capable of doing the job (4,9) |
| BOXINGMATCHES | What Maguire and Patterson are capable of in The Ring? (6,7) |
| WORDSOFWISDOM | What the wise guys are capable of could have come from Sibyl (5,2,6) |
| POETICLICENCE | Relaxation of rules applying to linesmen? |
| NOTIFICATIONS | What the informers are capable of in America and Russia covers good books being fairly specific (13) |
| QUIVERFUL | A lot of children doing a lot of trembling? (9) |
| SYSTEM | A way of doing a bit of a classy stem turn (6) |
| RAVING | A sailor doing a lot of orating (6) |
| CPA | Worker doing a lot of book reviews, for short |
| NOTUPTOMUCH | Capable of doing only little and that of a poor standard (3,2,2,4) |
| ORANGESANDLEMONS | Fruit gets children doing a lot of chopping |
