| SEVENYEARITCH | Vices - they're an awful threat to marriage (5 4,4) |
| THREELINEWHIP | Strongest instruction to an MP to vote with the party (5-4,4) |
| SHORTTERMLOAN | Brief period to advance to capital, bridging the gap? (5-4,4) |
| FRONTPAGENEWS | Courier admits writing to US senator's aide to get gossip - it's headline grabbing stuff (5-4,4) |
| RIGHTHANDSIDE | Indispensable team to starboard (5-4,4) |
| BIRDSNESTSOUP | Exotic meal, presumably containing eggs? (5-4,4) |
| THREEFOURTIME | Feature of waltz played either mute or forte (5-4,4) |
| BROWNEYEDGIRL | Van Morrison hit from 1967 (5-4,4) |
| LOOSELEAFBOOK | Volume of autumnal extracts? (5-4,4) |
| THREEFOOTRULE | It measure striped al regulation (5-4,4) |
| WHITETAILDEER | Bambi's species? (5-4,4) |
| READYMADESUIT | Prepared diamonds, perhaps, on pret-a-porter outfit (5-4,4) |
| SUGARSNAPPEAS | Green edible pods (5-4,4) |
| LOOSEHEADPROP | Rugby player; Poole shop, dear (anag.) (5-4,4) |
| BLACKEYEDPEAS | Pleased by 'cake' that's reconstituted pulses (5-4,4) |
| BLACKEYEDBEAN | A Clydebank bee scattered cowpea (5-4,4) |
| THEATRE | Awful threat to English playhouse |
| PATERNALISTIC | I tip ancestral vices precipitating fatherly conduct (13) |
| IMPERFECTIONS | Vices |
| UNION | French one on essentially honey moon earlier to marriage (5) |
