| GUYFAWKESNIGHT | Dish out eggy tuna fish around week when rocket's expected to go off (3,6,5) |
| SPACEAGE | Herb accepting speed when rockets went up (5,3) |
| LIFTOFF | Instant when rocket leaves launching pad (4-3) |
| DIRTYBOMBS | Improvised, contaminated, wasteful and expected to go off? They don't sound like something you'd use |
| SQUIB | A banger can be expected to go off (5) |
| PURITAN | Up train crashed - one not expected to go off the rails |
| ANGELHERNANDEZ | Baseball fans (and players) breathed a sigh of relief last week when this umpire, often reviled as the league's worst, announced his retirement |
| INDUCE | Cause pub to close early, having expected to go round clubs |
| TAPEMEASURES | They're for sizing up what the winner is expected to go through to determine final times (4,8) |
| FRICASSEE | One day of the week, when to look to eat cold stew (9) |
| SHOTGUNWEDDINGS | More than one expected to go up the isle with bridal guards of honour perhaps (7,8) |
| OVERACHIEVER | Wasn't expected to go through hell and back with old priest winding up engineer and rector (12) |
| DUETTIST | Player with partner is breaking several times: now expected to go first |
| IDEOLOGUE | Political reactionary, one expected to go round Goole after rioting (9) |
| SWERVE | Wait around week to alter course (6) |
| TWILL | Work around week to produce woven fabric (5) |
| UNFIT | Tuna fish has no place being out of condition (5) |
| SKISLOPE | Where you're expected to go downhill |
| MONDAY | Time of the week when one may nod off easily? |
| MAWKISH | Sentimental crush around week one |
