| BROGUES | Band leader picks up scoundrels' part of 5Dn (7) |
| HEALS | Patches up scoundrels they say |
| STAR | Light up scoundrels (4) |
| MEGASTAR | On the up, scoundrel and guru, male icon (8) |
| SPORRAN | Slight taken the wrong way - almost an afterthought - as part of 5Dn (7) |
| RATTLES | Noisy toys for babies, made of 5dn (7) |
| HOSE | Goes to blazes and winds up in the shed as part of 5Dn (4) |
| WAIST | Refuse cover for audience as part of 5Dn (9) |
| COAT | Refuse cover for audience as part of 5Dn (9) |
| KILT | Part of 5Dn starts to knock in low temperatures (4) |
| JACKET | Part of 5Dn covering King Edward when baking (6) |
| DUBH | Genetic code is first found in hospital viruses kept back in 24Ac as part of 5Dn (5,4) |
| SKIAN | Genetic code is first found in hospital viruses kept back in 24Ac as part of 5Dn (5,4) |
| PROFESSIONALS | Prepared pair of lessons for Cowley performance of 5Dn (13) |
| CLOD | Unusually cold victim of 5Dn (4) |
| ALVA | Fifty-five caught in evacuated area, site of 5Dn 7Dn (4) |
| SPIES | Work of 5Dn 6Dn especially sore if fiddled with (6,3,2,5) |
| ACEOF | Work of 5Dn 6Dn especially sore if fiddled with (6,3,2,5) |
| REILLY | Work of 5Dn 6Dn especially sore if fiddled with (6,3,2,5) |
| BASSIST | One of the musicians giving band leader help (7) |
