| BACKSEATDRIVERS | With hindsight they are critical of those at the wheel (8,7) |
| BOOKREVIEWER | Is critical of those telling stories to most of those in 21 across and a fair amount of the rest at The Observer (4,8) |
| ROAST | Receptacle of a new sort you are critical of (5) |
| KNOCK | Are critical of, which is a blow (5) |
| STABLECOMPANION | Another of those at the Yard, all there on the ladder (6,9) |
| PROTRACTOR | One of those who has the measure of that Circle is on the side of one of those at The Ploughing (10) |
| RETROSPECTIVELY | "Tainted love" is pretty clever with hindsight (15) |
| REARVIEWMIRRORS | Motorists use them with hindsight (4-4,7) |
| BROTHERINLAW | One of those at The Abbey is popular with the foreign women related by marriage (7-2-3) |
| WIGGLE | A bit of a twist for one of those at the top breaking leg (6) |
| STUD | Boss getting rid of half of those at the university? |
| SCALE | One of those at the bar on the beer is appreciated by musician (5) |
| HEIGHT | Hotel number for one of those at the base going to The Crown, for instance (6) |
| MONKEYSAROUND | One of those at The Abbey adaptation? Yes, roughly, producing plays in the Zoo presumably! (7,6) |
| NEWLYWED | Recently developed top lawn is moist in the morning upsetting one of those at the recent match (8) |
| GUEST | Pinter leaves guttersnipe for one of those at the hotel (5) |
| SHAREHOLDERS | Perhaps some of those at the company meeting don't have their own cases? (12) |
| ENTRANCE | One of those at The Gate examination, for one (8) |
| LOUNGESUIT | One of those at the bar takes action for outfit going to work (6,4) |
| SPEARHEAD | A sphere possibly these days of those at the forefront |