| PARLIAMENTARIAN | April meant rain - a change for him, being on Cromwell's side (15) |
| MEGALOMANIAC | A meal coming? A change for him, who thinks so big (12) |
| TOSTI | It would be a change for him to sit (5) |
| SLIPOFTHETONGUE | Spoken error upsetting fool, he being corrected (4,2,3,6) |
| PRECIPICE | From "steep place, danger" and etymologically related to a term for rain, a word for a headlong fall originally, now a cliff, drop, rock face etc; or, a perilous state of affairs (9) |
| SPAT | A large drop of rain; a petty quarrel; a short cloth gaiter; a drag-reducing fairing or pant for an aircraft wheel; a baby mussel, oyster or other mollusc; or, said shellfish collectively (4) |
| SONG | "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" or "Rain on Me" |
| EDUCATED | A cadet has it due to him - being taught a lesson (8) |
| SINGER | Ingres had to change for him to give voice (6) |
| DEADCERTAINTY | Presumably you could put money on him being late for an open-and-shut case (4,9) |
| SERGEANTMAJOR | Manager, or jest about him being a senior NCO (8-5) |
| GLEANER | One might enlarge on him being after scraps of information (7) |
| MARTINET | It's time to rant about him being so strict on discipline (8) |
| WALTER | Wife has to change for him (6) |
| LEARNER | Ran around in a backward sort of dance, he being a tyro (7) |
| TARPAULIN | In teeming rain, a compiler put on shirt: will this keep it off? (9) |
| NAPOO | In the rain a poor-spirited good-for-nothing (5) |
| DYLAN | "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" singer |
| BOBDYLAN | "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" singer |
| AQUARIANS | Water rains a little differently for about a twelfth of all people (9) |
