| SPEECH | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| REPORTED | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| RETRACT | Withdraw what was said about region (7) |
| TOOKBACK | Retracted what was said about it's being non-returnable? |
| PACER | Summary of what was said about walker (5) |
| REMARK | What was said about the foreign currency (6) |
| RECAP | Summarise what was said about award to player (5) |
| RECANT | Take back what was said about hypocrisy (6) |
| REPORTEDSPEECH | Made account of talk, more or less what was said (8,6) |
| WORDSTOTLFFECT | Basically what was said |
| NEWTOWN | Development such as Poundbury in Dorchester, Telford in Shropshire or Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire (3,4) |
| MUM | Dad's mate, in Dorchester |
| RINGS | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| MAUMBURY | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| UMASS | __ Boston (sch. in Dorchester) |
| ASSTATED | Terribly sad about condition, in accordance with what was said before (2,6) |
| PIDDLEHINTON | Last night Old Ned ended up in hospital with head injuries -- he was involved in an accident near Dorchester (12) |
| CASTERBRIDGE | Great scribe wrong about date in Hardy's Dorchester (12) |
| OBIT | Nothing opens bolt in trailer or that's what was said in passing (4) |
| OVERHEAR | Catch what was said of Americans in Britain (8) |