| BRANDNEW | Virgin and Pole drowned in beer |
| OAKAPPLE | Gall as old Greek character almost drowned in beer (3,5) |
| AIRLINES | Look! Queues in America for Virgin and EasyJet (8) |
| TRUEBLUE | Madonna album in between "Like a Virgin" and "Who's That Girl" |
| REDPERCH | Ros?, fish for Communist and Pole? (3,5) |
| ANTELOPE | Stake and pole destroyed bounder |
| PENNINES | Nurse and Pole amid trees can see hills (8) |
| BUCKSHOT | Small lead fixed between float and pole tip (4,4) |
| DEMONYMS | Finn and Pole |
| CATHODES | Scot had to appear nasty about English and Poles |
| AMPLE | Modern party leaders drowned in beer? That's quite enough! (5) |
| CLARENCE | Duke drowned in a butt of Malmsey (8) |
| IRRIGATE | Cook drowned in boiling water (8) |
| ESSAYIST | Writer, say, is found drowned in estuary (8) |
| COMMANDO | Amphibious soldier, chap finally drowned in Italian lake |
| PALPABLE | Picasso almost drowned in white, that's obvious (8) |
| AFFOGATO | Classic Italian pudding based on gelato drowned in espresso, sometimes served with amaretti or biscotti (8) |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, Italian painter and sculptor whose works include Virgin of the Rocks and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (2,5) |
| IRONAGE | Period from 800BC until the Roman invasion characterised by ferrous metallurgy, appearance of hillforts and advances in the quem, potter's wheel and pole lathe (4,3) |
| PISANELLO | Italian Renaissance painter whose works include The Vision of St Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot |
