| IRELAND | Cork's at the bottom of it |
| PLUGAWAY | Keep going and you'll get to Cork at midday by this road |
| ANAL | Towards the end of a bacchanalia, or close to the bottom of it, perhaps (4) |
| WELL | It's fit to be a hole with something at the bottom of it (4) |
| SILLIEST | The most ridiculous falsehoods found in the delta build-up when you get to the bottom of it? (8) |
| NECK | Cheek, and what is at the bottom of it |
| FATHOM | Try to get to the bottom of it, it's about six feet |
| ROOT | There's nothing in decay that's at the bottom of it (4) |
| TITHE | The bottom of it is returned for the tenth time (5) |
| DEEP | Being abstruse, it is hard to get to the bottom of it (4) |
| INDEPTH | Thoroughly going to the bottom of it? |
| IMPINGED | Trespassed - and obstructing journalist getting to the bottom of it |
| BARREL | Scraping the bottom of it is a last resort (6) |
| EIRE | Cork can be found near the bottom of it |
| BABYPOWDER | This can get to the bottom of it, little one! (4,6) |
| ABSOLVE | Deliver unclad baby and get to the bottom of it (7) |
| SMOOTHIE | Drink that's produced by cow, blended is the top and bottom of it (8) |
| FIRSTFOOT | New Year early bird: that's the top and bottom of it (5,4) |
| FLOATS | Buoyant things, such as the balls of ballcocks, corks/quills of fishing-lines, dolphins for mooring, lifebelts, rafts or scoops of ice cream in cola (6) |
| SPROCKET | It engages chain of corks : pet arranges it (8) |