| Clues | Answers |
| Accent | STRESS |
| Accurate | EXACT |
| Attacked and humiliated leader deposed | RUSHED |
| Best among the literati | ELITE |
| Breathe fire | INSPIRE |
| Claim on the money | EXACT |
| Clairvoyance in ceremony causes delay | RESPITE |
| Clergyman wants king always close | REVEREND |
| Cleric | REVEREND |
| Comeback | REPLY |
| Conclude big match is European | FINALISE |
| Cover with droplets | SPATTER |
| Cream | ELITE |
| Defamation | SLANDER |
| Difficulty about love | ADORE |
| Disturbed rest aboard ship brings tension | STRESS |
| Dog-end? | TAIL |
| Dote on | ADORE |
| Encourage | INSPIRE |
| Expensive fur bishop entered in auction | SABLE |
| French article put in after secrecy | SILENCE |
| Hair used in Montmartre’s salons | TRESS |
| Heraldic black | SABLE |
| Hiatus | RESPITE |
| Hurried | RUSHED |
| Located, placed | SITUATED |
| Lock or plait | TRESS |
| Lofty chap employed to train runners? | BEANPOLE |
| Man perhaps lies awkwardly | ISLE |
| Mild-mannered man drained lake | GENTLE |
| Mud-slinging apprentice jams tool | SLANDER |
| Piercing cry | SHRIEK |
| Preferences | TASTES |
| Pressure in bank to respond | REPLY |
| Prime Minister takes in Old English verse | POEM |
| Pull out hanky (not hard) | YANK |
| Put the last touches to | FINALISE |
| Quietness | SILENCE |
| Rhyme | POEM |
| Samples good man eats messily outside | TASTES |
| Screech from one grabbed by screen ogre | SHRIEK |
| Sea-girt land | ISLE |
| Season | WINTER |
| Sharp pull | YANK |
| Small talk creating splash | SPATTER |
| Soft and tranquil | GENTLE |
| Spend colder months in Glasgow in terror | WINTER |
| Statue I’d sculpted and placed | SITUATED |
| Tall thin person (informal) | BEANPOLE |
| Terrible blow for English MP in exam | TEMPEST |
| Track or follow | TAIL |
| Violent windy storm | TEMPEST |
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