| VANADIUM | Truck - one covered by dirt - going north, carrying a rare element |
| LATVIANS | Europeans move slowly north carrying a box |
| URANIC | Pertaining to a rare element |
| CASHCROP | Singer Johnny Rotten's no. 1 covered by one of The Police a a cultivated product (4,4) |
| RAINBOW | Colourful display - one covered by a brown form |
| IGNITION | One has one covered by observing rising spark (8) |
| ARIA | Song, one covered by top grade artist |
| SMUDGE | Pundit, one covered by slander, shows blemish (6) |
| MAOIST | Red ring, one covered by pole (6) |
| MOIRE | One covered by extra watery pattern (5) |
| RAINIER | American mountain, one covered by black cloud? (7) |
| DEMONIC | Very bad day, one covered by last month (7) |
| SALIVATION | Drooling of one covered by divine deliverance |
| CHARISMA | One's covered by appeal? Answer, yes (8) |
| TIARA | Headwear so long, one's covered by it! (5) |
| STORING | One covered by unusually strong stocking |
| DOSSIER | File, one covered by vagrant (7) |
| HAIL | Stones' No 1, covered by Prince (4) |
| GALILEO | Ship leaving the north carrying one scientist (7) |
| TENORHORN | Manoeuvres one north carrying right instrument (5,4) |
