| THEDEVILTOPAY | Trouble expected, having to meet junior counsel's fee note? |
| REFRESHER | Counsel's fee, of course, is subsequent to training (9) |
| DEVILRY | Junior counsel's line in reckless mischief? |
| VEX | Trouble expected to start between five and ten (3) |
| SUREENOUGH | As expected, having seen our awful expression of disgust ... (4,6) |
| UNDERCLOTHES | Briefs junior counsel, at first unwilling to accept points |
| OVERSLEPT | Got more winks than expected, having missed 10? |
| DEVILTOPAY | Trouble expected when the tadpole got stuck in the ivy (5,2,3) |
| MILL | Where trouble's expected to end in a fight (4) |
| ESTEEM | Regard as having to meet, by arrangement, at certain points (6) |
| MORTGAGES | Tom G rages at having to meet such payments (9) |
| REGRET | I'm sorry that it concerns the king having to meet an alien |
| HEADACHE | Nuisance as leader having to meet a Cuban revolutionary (8) |
| ADVISORS | Counsels to the president, e. g. |
| ADVISER | He counsels divers to turn after a start (7) |
| READVISES | Again counsels one to save, and dries out (9) |
| CONSENSUAL | Counsels an organisation to see that it's been explicitly agreed |
| REDEFINE | Old counsel's choice to offer new interpretation |
| REDES | Old term meaning counsels or advises (5) |
| SUGGESTS | Solicitor general appears on show promoting union with counsels |