| ADMONITORY | Trouble on-line about doctor, a fool, giving instructions (10) |
| OAFISH | Like a fool, giving, with the ball, a catch (6) |
| VERSAILLES | Trouble on line in poetry for Palace |
| ELNINO | Trouble on line that might have a global impact? (2,4) |
| IMPERATIVE | A part of speech used for giving instructions or orders (10) |
| NEMEANLION | Rubbish on-line about cruel figure in Labour |
| SATNAV | A device in a vehicle giving instructions on routes to take (6) |
| DECAHEDRON | Lecturer touring City with a male doctor, a solid figure |
| FUNDRAISER | Mock doctor, a miser spending some money at charity event (10) |
| DESALINATE | Start to doctor a sea inlet, possibly (10) |
| GREMLIN | Ring me, on line, about a mischievous sprite (7) |
| ASS | Fool giving an imitation of a snake (3) |
| FEELER | Tentative proposal of charge on line about to arise (6) |
| MANDARINORANGE | Bureaucrat on line about round fruit (8,6) |
| LEARNING | Finding out, on line, about making money (8) |
| SPLITS | Gets odds on line about some fractures (6) |
| TALLORDER | A six-footer giving instructions? It may be an impossible demand (4,5) |
| PLONKER | Fool giving cheap wine to the queen (7) |
| IGLOO | Fool giving up protecting northern home (5) |
| RANGABELL | Variation on lines about sailor evoked memory (4,1,4) |
