| HOLMBUSH | When a bus crashed into this large hotel at the beginning of May, three people were rushed to hospital - the accident happened just outside of St Austell (8) |
| BOLIVIAN | On the outskirts of Icomb, the van I was in crashed into the side of a lorry -- three people were injured, and one was from a South American country (8) |
| ABSURD | Farcical when a bus breaks down on the side of the road (6) |
| THERESA | May three metals accompany lead? (7) |
| ALDERHOLT | I had a terrible ordeal at this large hotel last August -- it's a place not far from Cranborne (9) |
| TAY | Large stream of volunteers on the third of May (3) |
| SPY | Secretly ascertain odds at the off before end of May (3) |
| TRYOUT | Test taken by a swimmer around the end of May (3-3) |
| THUMBSUP | Bus crashed during strike, a sign of 26? (6,2) |
| ABSURDITY | A dirty bus crashed, stupid thing (9) |
| UNDESIRABLE | I learned bus crashed: bad news |
| OPOSSUM | Rob from Probus took his four kids to the zoo at the beginning of May -- unfortunately they had no zebras left, but they did see a marsupial with a prehensile tail (7) |
| LAWMAKER | Politician left having emerged from sleep around the beginning of May before beginning to rise (8) |
| HITLIST | Three criminals were apprehended at a large hotel in the middle of Bristol last night -- shockingly, they were caught with evidence that they were planning multiple murders (3,4) |
| CALM | State that at the beginning of May isn't stormy (4) |
| RITZ | London hotel at the centre of a Barclay family dispute? (4) |
| ONTHEMEND | Tendon he injured around the beginning of May is getting better (2,3,4) |
| TRAUMA | Heartbreak Hotel at the centre? That's the spirit welcoming American from Academy! (6) |
| BARNOWL | Hotel at the moment left to vermin exterminator (4,3) |
| AMOEBA | Take a big overseas trip after beginning of May before getting a degree on a microscopic creature (6) |
