| CLUEIN | Drop a hint as to what you think this is - something fashionable (4,2) |
| CLUE | A hint as to what this is |
| CHOPANDCHANGE | Blow hot and cold as to what you might get from the butcher (4,3,6) |
| BANDWAGON | Black and green with pale border is something fashionable all of a sudden |
| HEARMEOUT | "I know you think this is a ludicrous idea, but ..." |
| OUT | Some of you think this is wrong (3) |
| ABACUS | At least this is something you can count on (6) |
| HARDER | Some people will think this is more cryptic, as it's more demanding (6) |
| RAINOUT | Unwanted outcome for a sports match...and a hint as to how to make sense of twelve across answers in this puzzle |
| OMNIDIRECTIONAL | Like the answers to eight starred clues ... and a hint as to how to fill them in |
| APORIA | A doubt, real or professed, as to what to do or say (6) |
| REDINK | Does this signify the debt to what you'd expect to find in Mao's Little Book? (3,3) |
| EVERYTHINGBUT | Musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, and a hint as to how to enter answers to asterisked clues * (13) |
| GOBACK | Return to what you do to basics or on your word (2,4) |
| AEGEAN | This is something between Greece and Turkey (6) |
| ENOUGH | No huge alteration as to what is needed (6) |
| CEREAL | Clear out and point to what you had for breakfast (6) |
| REFUSE | Say no to what you don't want (6) |
| CLUING | Writing hints, as a crossword constructor does |
| FENCES | They indicate boundaries as to what one does with foil (6) |
