| ESCAPEROOM | Canadian native reflects about prank - it's a challenge to get out of it (6,4) |
| DEBUNK | Challenge to get out of bed? (6) |
| EXAGGERATE | Overemphasize Jamaican music that reflects about times at end of life (10) |
| DECONGESTS | Frees clergyman who plays a prank, it's reported (10) |
| GERIATRIC | I rage about prank which is incomplete and very old (9) |
| HARANGUE | Lecture Tory about prank, with sides splitting (8) |
| CARTEL | It's a challenge to be let out in a car (6) |
| JIGSAWPUZZLE | It's a challenge to reassemble wasp crushed in first of juleps I quaff |
| HAKA | It's a challenge to have father gone and wife removed from whakapapa (4) |
| AUTHENTIC | The upper-class, they almost interrupted the prank - it's true (9) |
| MISUSES | Reflects about one's perversions (7) |
| SCARLET | (and 5 Across) Vera reflects about acute disease (7,5) |
| CREEPINGUP | Dog returning to follow Canadian native staple, slowly moving closer (8,2) |
| THEKITCHEN | If it's too hot, get out of it (3,7) |
| NOWANDTHEN | Sometimes a challenge to 9 for turning up ill-equipped? (3,3,4) |
| GAGE | An old word for a pledge, such as a glove, flung down as a symbol of a challenge to combat; or, the Baronet of Hengrave credited with introducing a damson-, mirabelleor plum-like green fruit to Englan |
| PROVIDE | Come up with a positive challenge to get daughter involved |
| MAZE | Amazed to find it in it and hard to get out of it (4) |
| RACEME | Simple inflorescence- challenge to get it first? (6) |
| GAUNTLET | Throw it down! It's a challenge! (8) |
