| EVILLY | Badly out in the spelling of "lively" (6) |
| TSE | Russian letter in the spelling of "tsar" |
| PROSECUTION | One side in court is badly out in following wrong corpse (11) |
| ISEULT | One of the spellings of the wife of Mark of Cornwall who was in love with the latter's knight, Tristan (6) |
| QUAYLE | Vice President of the United States under George Bush who incorrectly corrected a schoolboy on the spelling of 'potato' (6) |
| ASANTE | One of the spellings of an empire and region in modern-day Ghana that was annexed by Britain in 1902 |
| GANESH | One of the spellings of an elephant- headed mouse-riding Hindu god of wisdom, success and prophecy (6) |
| FRAISE | 16th-century neck ruff; one of the spellings of a type of bacon pancake; or, a French word for a strawberry (6) |
| RACKET | Hubbub, hurly-burly or hustling gaiety; one of the spellings of the sausage bassoon; or, unscrupulous moneymaking activities (6) |
| RATTLE | The crackling of paper; a dice-box; a maraca- or shaker-like toy for a baby; the rings of a pit-viper's tail; or, a spell of lively chattering (6) |
| HUSTLE | A type of lively disco dance with a variety of steps (6) |
| SPORTY | Capable of lively response to spry manoeuvres (6) |
| LAUGHS | Sounds of lively amusement (6) |
| SPRITE | ... and their display of lively wit (6) |
| DIERI | What is one of the spellings of the name of the Australian Aboriginal people of the Cooper Creek dis |
| ESPRIT | Wit of lively priest |
| POETIC | Is there such justice when you cop it badly out East? |
| OCKENHEIM | What is one of the spellings of the Flemish composer, the first in a long line of noted Flemish comp |
| AZUKI | One of the spellings of a reddishbrown pulse used in stews, salads, desserts and dim sum fillings, regarded as the king of beans in Japan (5) |
| GWYN | One of the spellings of the surname of an orange-seller who became a leading actress at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and a mistress of Charles II (4) |
