| BRANDNEW | Virgin and Pole drowned in beer |
| OAKAPPLE | Gall as old Greek character almost drowned in beer (3,5) |
| REDPERCH | Ros?, fish for Communist and Pole? (3,5) |
| TRUEBLUE | Madonna album in between "Like a Virgin" and "Who's That Girl" |
| AIRLINES | Look! Queues in America for Virgin and EasyJet (8) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| TAN | Lash out in the end at American and Pole (3) |
| RUNUPS | Approaches made by athletes to long jumps and pole vaults (3-3) |
| MAEWEST | Jacket and pole used to keep sheep in (3,4) |
| TOTEM | One of the options, of course, for backing Frenchman and Pole (5) |
| NEWSVENDOR | Recently-arrived Swedish man and Pole backed merchant in rag trade? |
| MOOSE | Setter carries rings and pole for animal (5) |
| PISANELLO | Italian Renaissance painter whose works include The Vision of St Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot |
