| MOUNTAINEERS | Use men in rota as climbers (12) |
| AORTAS | Change rota as vessels arrive |
| UPTHEPOLE | On the wrong track, as climbers could well be |
| ICEAXE | Regard music-maker, in a manner of speaking, as climber's companion? |
| RATION | Share out in rota (6) |
| AIRBOAT | Excellent bachelor included in rota arranged for vehicle on swamp (7) |
| ORATION | Speech prepared in rota after start of October (7) |
| PEA | Dad conserving energy as climber |
| ROBUST | Strong old boy, American, taking part in rota at odd points (6) |
| REASONTOLIVE | One rota Elvis devised as a raison d"etre (6,2,4) |
| NATURALISTIC | Given a turn newly on a rota in committee, at first like Pre-Raphaelite painting |
| GEORGEMARTIN | Rota emerging with shift for record producer |
| HEARTTOHEART | Cosy chat but Jack, perhaps, changed the rota (5-2-5) |
| PERCOLATOR | In every rota going round, insert colonel as coffee-maker (10) |
| CUCKOO | With zygodactyl feet, bird more often heard than spotted whose song, considered a herald of spring, is celebrated in the 800-year-old English rota Sumer is icumen in (6) |
| PATROL | New rota in place for security guard (6) |
| ATROCITY | Change of rota has municipality in outrage (8) |
| PEJORATIVE | Unpleasant exercise rota involved in dance |
| ASSORT | Class of steamship in new rota |
| AORTA | A rota arranged in person (5) |
