| BLAMER | Carrying the can, lad, and so getting MBE (6) |
| DOTING | Loving the dog, carrying the can for (6) |
| SANITY | State, when carrying the can, uplifting reason (6) |
| TOTING | Carrying the can, got upset about (6) |
| SITINS | Little girl carrying the can for protests (3-3) |
| JARGON | Resistance to travel in midwinter, so getting special terms |
| THEBAN | Then getting a degree in Greek (6) |
| STUBBS | Artist whose paintings include Whistlejacket, Mares and Foals in a River Landscape, Pumpkin with a Stable Lad and White Poodle in a Punt (6) |
| TOMBOY | Cat seen with lad and unfeminine girl (6) |
| ASWARM | Crawling, so getting close |
| ARGALI | Gravedigger's therefore getting it wrong - one wild creature? |
| DAMSEL | Girl affected lads and me (6) |
| DISMAL | I'm off with the lads and you look gloomy |
| NUMBER | Run and you'll get the MBE? You figure it out! (6) |
| BEDLAM | MBE lad might get, in asylum (6) |
| EMBLEM | Mel is given the MBE with a distinctive symbolic device (6) |
| ODETTE | ___ Sansom GC, MBE, spy in the wartime SOE (6) |
| BRONZE | Lucy _, one of the Lionesses awarded an MBE (6) |
| WALTER | And 1dn Scotland's first world boxing champion to be appointed MBE (1966) (6,7) |
| RASCAL | Dizzee ____ , stage name of British MC and rapper Dylan Mills who received an MBE in 2020 (6) |
