| OVERSTATEMENT | Upward massaging of the figures throughout bank's record |
| SPINOFF | Derivative piece - no more massaging of the news! (4-3) |
| QUEENVICTORIA | UK ruler and symbolic figure throughout the height of the Industrial Revolution (5,8) |
| SHEPHERDSDOG | Scottish banks record criminal dodgers around Midlothian like Black Bob, perhaps (9,3) |
| REPLENISH | Girl's back seen in massaging of spine, her top up |
| REPUTABLE | Massaging of pate with blue rinse initially respected (9) |
| ARABIC | The language of the figures we use (6) |
| CIRCLE | Shape of the figure walked in the divination practice of gyromancy (6) |
| SUPPER | In his bestseller, Dan Brown proposed a new identity for one of the figures in Leonardo da Vinci's Milan mural, The Last ... |
| ICON | One of the figures I'll have to study (4) |
| DISFIGUREMENT | Distortion of the figures in being minted like this (13) |
| NUMERATOR | One of the figures in a vulgar fraction (9) |
| ITO | Midori of the Figure Skating Hall of Fame |
| RECLUSE | Secure the release of the figure imprisoned: a loner (7) |
| PIECE | Any one of the figures used in chess, draughts and other board games (5) |
| MOLLY | A female mule; the forename of the figure commemorated in Dublin's "Cockles and Mussels" anthem; or, a guppy-like tropical cyprinodont (5) |
| PEER | An aristocrat, equal, fellow or noble; or, the forename of the figure "Gynt", depicted in a play by Henrik Ibsen (4) |
| STATUE | Astute misrepresentation of the figure (6) |
| SCALE | Magnitude of the figure obtained in auction (5) |
| MAIA | One of the figure-skating "ShibSibs" |
