| Clues | Answers |
| Alleviation | RELIEF |
| Animal, most successful, devours first character | BEAST |
| Baby with obsequious charm? | CRAWLER |
| Ban Asti perhaps? | ABSTAIN |
| Be situated in Beaulieu | LIE |
| Best time of youth | salad days |
| Cambridge or Oxford college | PEMBROKE |
| Cheat to secure point in card game | CRIBBAGE |
| City walls in Split survive | LAST |
| Courage | NERVE |
| Deadlock | IMPASSE |
| Decline to vote | ABSTAIN |
| Didn’t see crashes en route | DESTINED |
| Difficult position in which I’m outdated | IMPASSE |
| Dish of mashed pea all served up | PAELLA |
| Encrypted language | CODE |
| Endure | LAST |
| Energy in sliced meat for guiding light | BEACON |
| Eros | CUPID |
| Exonerated | CLEARED |
| Experience soreness | ACHE |
| Fated | DESTINED |
| Fish bone ultimately reveals secret message | CODE |
| Guardiola’s energy? | PEP |
| Hooded snake | COBRA |
| Improve text | EMEND |
| Innocent years with vegetarian diet? | salad days |
| Irish forged coin that’s ridiculous | IRONIC |
| Javelin or lance | SPEAR |
| Judge eats pork pie in break | RELIEF |
| Key worker climbing fiery mountain | ETNA |
| Large bird | PELICAN |
| Mike skint after training in Welsh town | PEMBROKE |
| Money-drawer in corrupt French fortress | BASTILLE |
| Monstrous person | BEAST |
| Mountaineer | CLIMBER |
| Musical surge | CRESCENDO |
| One with large bill in place that’s ruinous | PELICAN |
| Pain bachelor’s hiding | ACHE |
| Parisian prison | BASTILLE |
| Pegboard game | CRIBBAGE |
| Police department holding up lover boy | CUPID |
| Reassembled spare weapon | SPEAR |
| Rising cheer from soccer den maybe? | CRESCENDO |
| Say Hillary Clinton, initially flexible | CLIMBER |
| Sicilian volcano | ETNA |
| Signal fire | BEACON |
| Sinuous creature’s firm support | COBRA |
| Some unfortunate men deserve better | EMEND |
| Spanish rice dish | PAELLA |
| Sycophant | CRAWLER |
| Translating Verne requires bottle | NERVE |
| Untruth | LIE |
| Vitality | PEP |
| Worried about French article being approved | CLEARED |
| Wryly amusing | IRONIC |
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