| GOREVIDAL | Writer's aim to hold loon, say, back |
| INTERVENTION | Mediation with aim to hold review regularly (12) |
| SIMILE | Show amusement about one as silly as a loon, say |
| BALLPOINT | Writer's aim to follow party (9) |
| ENDIVE | The present writer's aim to start with something like chicory |
| ASIMOV | Prolific author aim to change over 50% (6) |
| PHD | Thesis writer's aim |
| TITLEPAGE | Bird turns to leap, say, back to first leaf (5,4) |
| BURGER | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain (6,4) |
| BURGERKING | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain |
| OVERTHETOP | Excessive to say - back in the day - it took bottle to go into battle this way? (4,3,3) |
| KING | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain (6,4) |
| TIPTOE | Lightly pad neckwear wrapped round shirt, say, back to front (6) |
| AUDITOR | Inspector feeding passport, say, back into car close to border |
| SHITZUITCAE | Lie about trooper, say, back to trudge around the Trossachs |
| UTTER | Say back Caesar's last words to Brutus? (5) |
| GESTATE | Carry baby, say, back to dignity (7) |
| VERGE | Finish over, say, back to the boundary (5) |
| SAGA | Neon, say, back to a story (4) |
| RESPONSETIME | Count the reaction moments between what we say back to priest (8,4) |
