| MORALHIGHGROUND | What the righteous may claim, and a hint to the starred answers |
| ITSMINE | Ownership claim ... and a hint to the relationship of each answer to a starred clue to a word it int |
| NOSING | What the righteous have initially got going, gradually |
| TWENTYONE | What a mature woman may claim to be over, already having the key of the door (6-3) |
| THEAREA | What a drop-in may claim to be in |
| AURA | Colored glow around a person that a psychic may claim to see |
| ACCUSER | One who makes a claim - and one who copies an email? (7) |
| NOVICES | Converts the smugly virtuous may claim to have? |
| ESP | Ability a mentalist may claim to have: Abbr. |
| PUTONES | Back one's claim and eat bread? (3,4,5,5,4,5,2) |
| CLIMAX | Summit making strange claim and getting cross (6) |
| SCIMITARS | Reminders of duels, including my boastful claim and swords (9) |
| ADJUSTER | Assessor of claims and judge engaged by a cleaner (8) |
| CRIME | Cold and frost that may claim an innocent victim (5) |
| CATCHOUT | Reveal as phoney what fielder may claim, wanting verdict against batsman (5,3) |
| ISOLDE | What drug pusher may claim for operatic heroine |
| NOTHINGTOWRITEHOMEABOUT | Unremarkable boarding pupils, lost for words, may claim to have it |
| AGER | Mature vats in which one may claim a part is returned (4) |
| IMMODEST | I may claim to be self-effacing, but that would be lacking humility. (8) |
| PRETENDERS | They may claim to hold sway, but it's all show (10) |
