| NOTHINGTOWRITEHOMEABOUT | Unremarkable boarding pupils, lost for words, may claim to have it |
| ESP | Psychics claim to have it: Abbr. |
| DAYGIRLS | Non-boarding pupils at a boarding school (3,5) |
| MAGGIE | __ Budgen, housemistress to the boarding pupils of Waterloo Road school (6) |
| THEAREA | What drop-in visitors may claim to have been in |
| NOVICES | Converts the smugly virtuous may claim to have? |
| SESSIONS | Things former pupil lost in binges (8) |
| DAYBOY | Daughter over a year gets to cheer up, reportedly, non-boarding pupil (3,3) |
| AURA | A psychic may claim to see it |
| PRETENDERS | They may claim to hold sway, but it's all show (10) |
| IMMODEST | I may claim to be self-effacing, but that would be lacking humility. (8) |
| MONKEYSUNCLE | Animal "relative" an astonished person may claim to be |
| EYECREAMS | Cosmetic products that may claim to minimize bags |
| NAMEDROPPERS | They may claim to know stars |
| TWENTYONE | What a mature woman may claim to be over, already having the key of the door (6-3) |
| SLANDERER | One's words may lead to action (9) |
| ANOTHERSENTENCE | Additional set of words may suffice what re-offenders stand to receive! (7,8) |
| TEXTILE | Material for printed words may lie higgledy-piggledy (7) |
| ISOLDE | What drug pusher may claim for operatic heroine |
| MORALHIGHGROUND | What the righteous may claim, and a hint to the starred answers |
