| Clues | Answers |
| A drama unfolding in The Fleet | ARMADA |
| An energetic person – the one many said couldn’t be touched – is charged | LIVEWIRE |
| Arranged break-ins with Busby | BEARSKIN |
| Bad partner associated with ill feeling in the family | BLOOD |
| Barman produces two types of music that could be recycled or discarded as rubbish | SCRAPMETAL |
| Bird in the royal family found in 26 across with the queen | KINGFISHER |
| Celebrity turns up in San Marino City | ICON |
| Establish on the borders of Creole State | CREATE |
| Fish starters: twenty-one to go with style of champagne served up | TURBOT |
| Give one’s blessing to medic taking on operation in theatrical setting, that’s not the most prominent | BACKDROP |
| Group of shops around a place keeping the faith in the units | CHAPLAIN |
| High-flyers overseas find international racing drivers can be useful for a bit of weaving | RAFFIA |
| Is not guilty of selling drink from old capital | INNOCENT |
| Near Miss Best? Mates, for instance, getting job with those cutting staff! | CLOSESHAVE |
| One of those dealing in the market switched pieces of Toulouse-Lautrec! Or Gauguin? | GROCER |
| One of those with lots of Oscars, the fishy type, in St Trinian’s, for instance? | SCHOOL |
| Organises publicity for New Year appeal | PRAYER |
| Over adventurous in bay around Kuala Lumpur | RECKLESS |
| Parents, for example, upset by vandalism | DAMAGE |
| Part of revolutionary pamphlet – a metaphysical type that’s one of a pair | MATE |
| Ran off with young woman briefly with right-wing dictator | MISAPPROPRIATED |
| Raphael dismisses ale – a local beverage | HARP |
| Ring denies adaptation is primarily discriminatory or lacking in balance | ONESIDED |
| Some twenty per cent work in the office | TYPE |
| Sweet talk of criminal living around Spain linked to drugs | INVEIGLE |
| Trackers lose cars in a long arduous journey | TREK |
| Very funny sign removed from Shanghai | HAHA |
| Very good sporting teams – many in good form perhaps | CLASSMATES |