| SANS | Without, as Shakespeare might have said |
| HIE | To go quickly, as Shakespeare might put it |
| PARK | What Shakespeare might be in? |
| HOLDBACK | Restrain impudent journalist, as Spooner might have said |
| SQUAREMEAL | Courses making horse screech, as Spooner might have said? |
| PIGSWILL | Refuse old Liberal's remedy, as Spooner might have said? |
| IMPOUND | Shut up, as poet might have said? |
| DEADLETTER | Useless correspondence guided bankrupt person, as Spooner might have said |
| KISMET | Fate, as Nelson might have said (6) |
| PACKEDLUNCH | Ready meal needed batter, as Spooner might have said? |
| ACTYOURAGE | Pretend you have a temper? It's something your mother might have said to you (3,4,3) |
| UTERI | Rooms for the next generation, as Roy Jenkins might have said (5) |
| GHOSTWRITE | As Van Dyke might have said, give up crime and secretly control the pen? (10) |
| BACKWATER | Quiet part of the river, as Canute might have said (9) |
| FLYPAST | Travel at speed, as Spooner might have said, in this display? |
| DEADLETTERS | Old laws guided those in arrears, as Spooner might have said |
| BONGODRUM | As Napoleon might have said: 'Good Lord, strange one's beaten!' |
| POLLTAX | Charge to ring the bells of peace in Rome, as Spooner might have said |
| UNCLEARED | Waiting for security pass, as Stalin's nephew might have said? (9) |
| BEGINAGAIN | "Oh great, now I've lost my rhythm and I'll have to ___ from the top on that song," Taylor might have said after the commotion abated (but probably didn't) |
