| STEADFASTNESS | Way top journalist goes round a fortress, displaying constancy |
| SUPERB | Excellent journalist goes round most of the country (6) |
| ELATED | Former journalist goes round in high spirits (6) |
| FREEDOM | Way top person, female, set up basic human right (7) |
| ROUGE | Perhaps make up for the way top geneticist replaces assistant, in the end |
| CEDE | Give way, top tennis player said (4) |
| FREQUENCY | With a "crowded, densely packed, stuffed" ancient Roman root, a word used to denote commonness, constancy, periodicity, repetition, a broadcast waveband and the rate per second of a wave's vibration, |
| DEFILE | Corrupt journalist goes back to dubious life |
| DESERVE | Journalist goes up to present warrant (7) |
| DEGAS | Journalist goes back up to talk on French Impressionist (5) |
| MOBBED | Busy journalist goes after 3 seconds |
| HASTE | He goes round a short way in a hurry (S: |
| WAYFARER | One walking with philosopher goes round a long way |
| RETAILER | One giving bathroom a makeover goes round a shop |
| THREAD | Used in a sewing machine, it goes round a screw |
| SERIOUS | Thoughtful way the American goes round a Brazilian city (7) |
| GALILEO | A name by which the discoverer of the constancy of a pendulum's swing and four of Jupiter's moons is |
| INFIDELITY | Lack of faith or constancy, especially in a relationship (10) |
| OLIVERNORTHSTAR | Controversial Iran-Contra affair figure and a symbol of constancy |
| EARNEST | Important Wilde character goes round a grave (7) |