| MERCHANTSHIP | Writer, right chap with hints about trading vessel (8,4) |
| ANTIPODES | Southern Climes article with hints about poetry |
| TEMPTINGFATE | Agency worker, with hint about richness, taking a chance |
| SPIRITUALIST | Psychic hints about controlling lives following ceremony (12) |
| MANICURE | Chap, one with hint about right treatment for hands (8) |
| PREFECT | Church official sounds unsure about trading right (7) |
| DORMANT | Perform with right chap, opening in Tchaikovsky - such as Sleeping Beauty? (7) |
| RENDELL | Crime writer right to finish with European students (7) |
| RAMBLE | Take a long walk with thriller writer, right to the top |
| FISHERMAN | Right chap, if he's confused at first, to be one with rod (9) |
| WHAT | Are you serious writing home about trading fronts? (4) |
| NEBRASKAN | Right chap returned? Question an inhabitant of Lincoln, perhaps |
| RETROFIT | Row about trading station returning to make change after delivery |
| RED | The right chap to be a revolutionary (3) |
| SWAPSHOP | Dumfries and Galloway has Sappho excited about trading place (4,4) |
| EMPORIA | Opera I'm composing about trading centres (7) |
| RESURGENT | After cunning ruse, right chap's on the up once more (9) |
| SIXTHSENSE | (f) perception supplying Essex with hints (5,5) |
| UNDY | *French floral wine with hints of crisp minerality |
| REGENCY | Period genre recreated with hints of cravats and yestermorns? |