| SMARTALECK | Upstart with clout, having penned minister's latest report |
| UPDATE | Latest report: at university, with boyfriend? (6) |
| PARVENU | Upstart with coursework perhaps is against a foreign review (7) |
| EDUCATED | Upstart with moggy interrupting journalists, learned (8) |
| PRIMULA | Strait-laced upstart with the French plant (7) |
| LIFEBUOY | Sentence for young man hiding upstart with float (4,4) |
| RURAL | Royal upstart with gunners left country (5) |
| URIAH | Upstart with locks swept back, like a biblical character |
| UKULELE | Country upstart with the French, repeat, the French instrument (7) |
| WHIPPERSNAPPER | Young upstart with fashionable person, one taking photos? (14) |
| BANGUPTODATE | As the very latest report is? (4,2,2,4) |
| NEWSHOUND | Aggressive journalist's latest report about hypocritical leader (9) |
| STATEOFTHEART | Latest report by old newspaper character |
| UPDATES | Latest reports keep up with romantic liaisons (7) |
| ENQUIRED | Asked to finish, having penned several sheets (8) |
| LILYWHITE | "Free Willy": man having penned it blameless (4-5) |
| DANTE | European having penned triplets primarily? (5) |
| EPIGRAPH | Somehow happier having penned grand words at front of book? (8) |
| EVITA | Show letter from Greece, having penned six (5) |
| HOFFNUNG | Anglo-German humorist suspended, having penned dodgy number |
