| Clues | Answers |
| … Sam, the US government | UNCLE |
| Act in a certain way | BEHAVE |
| Assistant | HELPER |
| Chinese fruit | LYCHEES |
| Comparatively good | BETTER |
| Completely absorbed, rapt | ENGROSSED |
| Components, factors | ELEMENTS |
| Dairy product | CHEESE |
| Egress | EXIT |
| Extent from side to side | WIDTH |
| First-born | ELDEST |
| Free from roughness or bumps | SMOOTH |
| Fruit eaten as a vegetable | TOMATO |
| Group of suburban houses or industrial units | ESTATE |
| Guests who fail to cancel reservations | NOSHOWS |
| Healing institutions | HOSPITALS |
| Incidents, happenings | EVENTS |
| Lucky | FORTUNATE |
| Mix or agitate | STIR |
| More than one | PLURAL |
| Operating medical practitioner | SURGEON |
| Periodical and arms store | MAGAZINE |
| Pinpoint the position of | LOCATE |
| Plan or pattern | DESIGN |
| Projecting ridge | LEDGE |
| Reckoned, took to be the case | SUPPOSED |
| Skin blemish and burrowing animal | MOLE |
| Sloped, slanted | TILTED |
| State in which power lies with the electorate | REPUBLIC |
| Statement of personal opinion | COMMENT |
| The right to reject a decision | VETO |
| They’ve gone before us | ANCESTORS |
| Tore roughly | RIPPED |
| Unfastened or removed a barrier | OPENED |
| Unoccupied | VACANT |
| Visual record | VIDEO |