| MONKEYJACKET | Weekend in capital with record holder - the handy type that's historically in a mess (6,6) |
| GLOVEBOX | Legend gets nothing from tennis, from fight in the ring or from one of the handy types in golf? (8) |
| SCRIABIN | Airs improvised without a keynote by Holder, the composer (8) |
| DEXTER | Stop vote being held that's historically right (6) |
| EXCON | Political authority, in short, rings mystery man to switch with record holder? (2-3) |
| DEPART | Wander off track with record-holder Bolt? |
| CLOSEONESEYES | To drop what's in ice cream holders - the viewers can't bear to look (5,3'1,4) |
| EXCONS | Political authority rings mystery man to switch last names with record holders (2-4) |
| CONTACTSPORT | A gent's associate is fishing for one of those handy types in Ring (7,5) |
| GORGONS | Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, the fanged monsters with the handy knack of turning to stone anyone who |
| BANGLE | Bengal stew is a handy type on display at The Joint (6) |
| SHERLOCKHOLMES | Woman's left for time in capital, with essentially domestic role for 13 |
| ALSACE | Most of the dry white wine historically in drink from French region (6) |
| WITCH | Historically, in mythology and fiction, a woman believed to practise magic (5) |
| AVIATOR | Historically in Canadian skies... Marion Orr or J.A.D. Mccurdy |
| EARWAX | Common name for cerumen - a bodily secretion used historically in pigment, therapeutically, and to stop threads fraying (6) |
| SKIT | I went to a top theatre in the centre of Bristol at the weekend in order to see a short but funny performance (4) |
| PHARISEE | Husband invested in capital with two Europeans? Hypocrite! (8) |
| CASBAH | Awful short in capital with citadel (6) |
| ROMANCE | Party in capital with sentiment (7) |
