| ORIENTEER | Find direction in sport from mysterious East poetically ever present (9) |
| LUNGE | Bound to find direction in toboggan (5) |
| EPISTOLER | Writer has no aspiration coming from mysterious priest hole (9) |
| TRUENORTH | Turn to her, upset, to find direction (4,5) |
| RACKETEER | The commotion is poetically ever crook |
| PERDITION | The threat of eternal damnation is ever-present in the Tom Hanks film, Road To .. |
| TONYBANKS | Labour MP for West Ham from 1997-2005; Minister for Sport from 1997-99 |
| YONGHYUNG | Cho ....-....., South Korea defender; 2010 FIFA World Cup ever-present (4-5) |
| CHOJAEJIN | 2003-08 South Korea striker; 2006 FIFA World Cup ever- present (3,3-3) |
| SNOWBOARD | Winter Olympic sport from 1998 (9) |
| DIGENNARO | Antonio ___, 1984-1986 Italy and 1981-1988 Verona midfielder; 1986 Fifa World Cup ever-present (2,7) |
| KISMET | Baubles, Bangles And Beads and Stranger In Paradise were hits from this musical set in the mysterious east and based on the music of Borodin |
| TEXAS | Where Americans get cross in the mysterious East |
| ASSETS | Possessions of saints in the mysterious East (6) |
| ERIE | Emergence of Excalibur initially from mysterious lake |
| TORMENTS | Ribs and bone from mysterious monster (8) |
| ELECTIONEER | Vote for Mr Idriess, and poetically ever canvass for an aspirant |
| CAREER | An automobile is poetically ever a life's occupation |
| ATROPINE | Makes Portia find direction to poisonous part of nightshade (8) |
| WAVINESS | Undulating tendency of climbers was about to find direction (8) |
