| SEATROUT | Constituency defeat for relative of Salmond (almost ___ or, more distantly, Sturgeon) (3,5) |
| LOCKERROOMS | Pants ___ or more ___ found in rugby players" changing areas? (6,5) |
| SCREED | Belief under leadership of Salmond in diatribe (6) |
| ICESKATE | Winter pursuit is on the rocks for relative of Ray (3,5) |
| CURLEW | Cruel awful work for relative of snipe (6) |
| GLADIOLI | Tips for grilling langoustines dipped in some garlic mayonnaise for relatives of Iris (8) |
| JUBILANT | A liberal brought up to divide military rulers almost ___ I'm elated (8) |
| PROSPECT | Chance of success Gray distantly associated with Eton College |
| ELALMEIN | Site of a key defeat for the Afrika Korps |
| REMOTELY | Meet Lory, kind of distantly (8) |
| DIDACTIC | Speak to distantly with muscular spasm representing vocal sounds (8) |
| ISOGLOSS | One's defensive error leads to defeat for the line |
| COLOSSAL | Firm defeat for a trainee could be immense (8) |
| CIVILWAR | Defeat for Charles I, showing courtesy with a Republican (5,3) |
| PANGLOSS | Pain and defeat for optimistic person (8) |
| SOULMATE | Single reported defeat for alter ego (4,4) |
| CULLODEN | Seventeen forty six defeat for Bonnie Prince Charlie |
| WINNIPEG | Victory: just defeat for one football team (8) |
| DEADBEAT | Late defeat for layabout |
| BORE | Word, distantly related to "gullet, pharynx", for the hollow part of a gun barrel or other tube; or, said cylinder's calibre or diameter (4) |
