| STRAFE | What machine-gunners do seconds after reforming (6) |
| POMPOM | Enabling a machine-gunner to have a ball? (6) |
| MANGLE | What machine, with two heavy rollers, is used for pressing or drying wet clothes? (6) |
| EDICTS | 7 losing case seconds after court orders (6) |
| SLEEPS | Nods off seconds after Prime Minister's turned up (6) |
| GALWAY | Forever wanting seconds after good port (6) |
| COSMOS | Three seconds after first signs of creation of universe (6) |
| ADMITS | Confesses seconds after millions found in opening to mine (6) |
| EUREKA | What was shouted barely a second after a discovery (6) |
| EGRESS | Pick up material seconds after departure |
| RUSSET | Second after rugby, ready for an apple (6) |
| ARTHUR | King Ben's second after Paul's music partner (6) |
| DENIAL | Cut flowers? Two of them, the second after receiving a rejection (6) |
| SLATER | A second after, he's on the roof (6) |
| HASTEN | Hurry off, then, a second after coming in (6) |
| BANKSY | His "Balloon Girl" was shredded seconds after selling for ?1.04m at Sotheby's in 2018 |
| TROUBLE | Spouse rude at first, noble after reforming (7,3,6) |
| ROBERTWESTALL | 20th Century British author whose works include the children's novel The Machine Gunners (6,7) |
| MAXIM | What the machine gunner uses as a rule (5) |
| UPRIGHTHOOK | Villainous pirate, after reforming? |
