| HORSEPLAY | Fooling around with early shop fittings (9) |
| TRICKLING | Dribbling lady fooling around (9) |
| UNNOTICED | Continued fooling around without being seen (9) |
| CRISTIANO | Ronaldo's current, boring antics or fooling around (9) |
| GETOFFTHESTOOGE | "Quit fooling around with Moe!"? |
| FOREIGNLEGION | Green one fooling around with force abroad (7,6) |
| ECSTATICALLY | Cat is fooling around with clay tiles very happily (12) |
| MAYORALSEX | Fooling around with Hizzoner? |
| ENTANGLEMENT | Gentleman fooling around with Net or Web |
| UNTWISTING | Setting straight nitwit fooling around with guns (10) |
| PLAYINGCARDS | Jokers, perhaps, spying lad fooling around with vehicle (7,5) |
| MONOMANIA | Obsession with early vinyl recordings? (9) |
| GETSIRIUS | Stellar plea to quit fooling around? |
| BESERIOUS | "Stop fooling around!" |
| EARLYBIRD | I err badly, fooling around for a lark? (5,4) |
| ICANTSTANDIT | 1981 Eric Clapton song whose title is followed by "You're fooling around with my heart": 4 wds. |
| HALLSTATT | Cultural phase in Europe from 1200-600BC, associated with early Celts (9) |
| GARDENING | Described in Ruralia Commoda, a practice with early springtime jobs including sowing, mowing, mulching, chitting, dividing, propagating and hedge-laying (9) |
| SCOTCHEGG | Whisky with early bird always popular on the picnic (6,3) |
| BOWSTREET | Thoroughfare associated with early police force |
