| FARRIER | A blacksmith's 20 that is in basic education (7) |
| HERMIONE | She's into 20, that girl, enraging me or surprising (8,7) |
| GRANGER | She's into 20, that girl, enraging me or surprising (8,7)See 15 |
| TOMPION | Born in Bedfordshire in 1639, a blacksmith's son who established himself as one of the foremost English clockmakers and horologists (7) |
| BELLOWS | Roars like a bull - of help to a blacksmith? (7) |
| RESHOES | Does a blacksmith's job |
| MIRRORS | Nothing interrupts basic education in timeless film theme (7) |
| ROSSINI | Town trumpeter's son, apprenticed to a blacksmith as a child, who later wrote 39 operas including The Barber of Seville (7) |
| FORGERY | Fake produced by a blacksmith? (7) |
| STRAYED | Got off course, so remained without some basic education (7) |
| LEARNED | Inclined to accept one third of basic education as showing wisdom (7) |
| TRICKED | Taken in and given mark covering part of basic education |
| STIRRER | It's about basic education disrupted by English troublemaker (7) |
| HORROR | House investing nothing in basic education? Hence disgust (6) |
| MIRROR | "I'm upset over nothing in basic education," one reflects |
| ERROR | It's wrong, note, when one sees nothing in basic education |
| THREERS | Basic ed trio |
| SCORE | Word meaning twenty that appears in the Gettysburg Address |
| SPARKS | Fiery particles occurring when flint is struck with steel, a blacksmith's hammer strikes an anvil or metal is arc welded; or, a nickname for an electrician (6) |
| NAILS | Twenty that often need trimming |