| CLAUDIO | Florentine count not exactly big up in Oderzo at first |
| METICAL | Dealt with one, not exactly large, bit of Africa |
| SPIRACULA | Page is upset about bloody count not opening vents (9) |
| NUMB | Count not counting royalty when deprived of sensation (4) |
| NOTIME | Every Second Counts not the occasion for defeat (2,4,2,4) |
| TOLOSE | Every Second Counts not the occasion for defeat (2,4,2,4) |
| IGUANAS | ?Big up' some ducks and reptiles (7) |
| BUSTY | Public transporter totally empty, big up top? (5) |
| AGGRANDISE | Big up the grading of sea storms (10) |
| PRAISE | Big up power lift |
| BIGGRIPPA | Large, up to 10 oz, knobbly flat lead (3,6) |
| STAGEPROPS | Big ups for a theater actor? |
| BERTRAM | Who bears himself bravely in the Florentine Wars and is the Count of Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well? |
| FLORIN | Florentine coin first struck in 1252 (6) |
| CASSIO | A Florentine gentleman soldier in Shakespeare's Othello involved in a brawl with Roderigo |
| BOTTICELLI | Florentine painter who worked for the Medici family throughout most of his life; his works include Primavera and a depiction of a goddess standing in a scallop shell in The Birth of Venus (10) |
| MEDICINE | Old Florentine family starts to need experts in art of healing (8) |
| NAVARINO | Sea battle requires most of warships and one in Florentine river (8) |
| VESPUCCI | Amerigo ___, Florentine navigator and explorer who died in 1512 (8) |
| BISCUIT | Italy taken in by dreadful Cubist, Florentine perhaps (7) |
