| CLERIHEW | Where I worked on a couple of classical couplets |
| ELEGIAC | Like classical couplets translated from English and Gaelic |
| OPERATED | I had to drop a tee so I worked on it (8) |
| APPENDED | Stuck on a couple of pages, then called it a day? (8) |
| ENTREATY | Plea for agreement on a couple of points (8) |
| APPENDIX | Arranged index on a couple of pages: it may be at back of book |
| RADIANCE | A dancer I worked to brilliance (8) |
| LIKEWISE | "Fifty-one weeks I worked". "Same here!" (8) |
| TALISMAN | Last man I worked with had charm (8) |
| ORDINARY | Andrew Orr and I worked together as normal (8) |
| RAMAYANA | Epic of roughly 24,000 couplets |
| JEWSHARP | In Paris I worked initially with off-pitch instrument (4,4) |
| ODETOJOY | Poem inverting couplets from Young, Jonson, Tennyson and Donne |
| INANUTSHELL | Suntan I worked on, agony briefly (2,1,8) |
| INCOMPATIBILITY | Fact of being beyond question put in idly as bit I worked on (15) |
| ASSESS | Place a value on a couple of ships, going all over Europe (6) |
| ANNEALS | A girl takes on a couple of trainees, and softens them up (7) |
| ACACIA | I took on a couple of accountants over something thorny (6) |
| BLANKETCOVERAGE | Extensive advertising that's put on a couple of sheets? (7,8) |
| CORELLI | Expert on the fiddle in business, one banking on a couple of pounds |