| MINATORY | After short time, a politician can be threatening |
| TREATISE | After short time a tree is processed to make paper (8) |
| SINISTER | To be left on one side can be threatening (8) |
| IMP | A politician can be a little devil (3) |
| CHAMP | He's the best a politician can be, following the church (5) |
| STAMPINGGROUND | Give information about time a politician crushed popular haunt |
| TAMPION | It's time a politician had one working to plug the gap (7) |
| IMPROBABLE | It is unlikely that one politician can be formally dressed (10) |
| JOHNMAJOR | A politician can specialise stateside (4,5) |
| ADLIB | In this day and age a politician can speak freely (2,3) |
| ELECTORALCOLLEGE | Where a politician can learn how to win the presidency? |
| STAMP | Way a politician can make an impression (5) |
| INTERNAL | Sort of affairs a politician can get involved in |
| SECONDMATE | After a short time a companion becomes a ship's officer (6,4) |
| ANON | In a short time, a long, long, long time go |
| SECONDSIGHT | After a short time, a spectacle shown by the clairvoyant? (6,5) |
| INCONSTANT | In a short time a prisoner becomes disloyal (10) |
| SALOON | In a short time, a man will enter the bar (6) |
| INTERNATIONAL | Big game put behind bars a short time, a lion getting agitated (13) |
| MANITO | In short time a small egg is seen as sacred object |
