| INTERLOCKS | Town Clerk is upset, wife having left, so becomes engaged (10) |
| TWEETTWEETED | Across border current Wet Wet Wet struggling with Pellow finally having left (so a little bird told me) (5-7) |
| GELATINOUS | A container coated in glue, so becomes gloopy (10) |
| SOOTHSAYER | Hears toy, so becomes prophet (10) |
| ENLIGHTENS | Teaches English nervously at first then becomes less serious (10) |
| MALINGERER | Me in gear with fantastic style, tying up left then right loafer (10) |
| STATUTELAW | Taut tales about wife having set of principles (7,3) |
| SETTER | Son's less resolute, wife having left me (6) |
| HINGE | Bellyache, wife having left ... get coupling!(5) |
| AVER | Wife having left, hesitate to make a statement |
| DIARIST | Frank, say, needs help to roll joint, wife having left |
| AXING | Dispensing with singer, with wife having left (5) |
| GNARLIER | GNER rail is twisted... and then becomes even more twisted (8) |
| HEATHEN | He starts appraising and then becomes a pagan (7) |
| ADHERENT | There and then becomes a follower (8) |
| OGRE | Reg is given nothing so becomes big and wicked |
| EXACT | Bob has left so intercourse is precise |
| KNELT | Prepared for a proposal from town clerk getting rid of crow (5) |
| NITWIT | Idiot can upset wife with sex appeal (6) |
| DELAMARE | Poet's upset wife from US State? |
