| UPSTANDING | Honest, as we must be when the judge appears! |
| BEATEN | What eggs must be when you need something battered? |
| SURLY | Bad-tempered? It must be when lacking energy |
| ABOVEBOARD | Honest, as the chairman of the directors should be (5,5) |
| STRAIGHT | Wouldn't Fletcher - in that Porridge sitcom - have to be one as honest as the day is long? (8,5) |
| ARROW | Wouldn't Fletcher - in that Porridge sitcom - have to be one as honest as the day is long? (8,5) |
| DAY | "(as) honest as the ____ is long" |
| BRUTALLY | As honest as one can be, to put it cruelly. (8) |
| BEAMAN | "___, we must be swift as a coursing river, ___, with all the force of a great typhoon..." (lyrics from "Mulan") |
| OWE | Having nothing we must be in the red (3) |
| ASSESS | This judge appears to be a foolish woman |
| RUTH | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
| RISE | What a bailiff tells people to do when the judge enters |
| BINDOVER | Bond I have with rev when the judge will restrict my movements (4,4) |
| KANGAROOCOURT | "___? That's when the judge is a marsupial" |
| ALLRISE | Courtroom directive when the judge enters: 2 wds. |
| ROOFER | Thatcher, for example, given a jumper when the judge returned (6) |
| LASCAR | When Carla's around the sailor appears! (6) |
| FISHEYES | "___ swimming in mucilage" (Kate's honest-as-usual reaction to the paisley design of Spencer's pajamas in the film Without Love and my favorite line from their movies) |
| RIGHTEOUS | Honest as this rogue could be (9) |
