| ADINTERIM | For the present, a row ultimately about European border (2,7) |
| GIFT | For the present, a soldier goes on foot |
| VEHEMENT | Fierce outburst about European border (8) |
| PERIMETER | Tsar crossing European border or boundary |
| VEHEMENCE | Great intensity of feeling as setter leaves Italian city, crossing European border (9) |
| MORTGAGEE | Home-buyer increasingly sore ultimately about time restriction |
| TERRITORY | Politician admitting mistake -one ultimately about land (9) |
| BASSOON | ... that's, in the present, a piece of wood (7) |
| TODAY | The present a toady may give (5) |
| SCHENGEN | The ____ agreement of 1985 relaxed a number of European border controls |
| ODER | River forming part of a modern European border (4) |
| ENID | European borders requiring passport for Bagnold, for instance (4) |
| PENAL | Write a novel ultimately about punishment |
| TREATED | Disquiet ultimately about a delinquent youth given indulgence (7) |
| GREATTIT | Recall snigger, laughing ultimately about a bird (5,3) |
| GRENADA | A country song ultimately about nothing (7) |
| ENGAGE | Shoot the bolt - after European borders close to Luxembourg get on, the Spanish hide in roof covering (6,3,5) |
| THELATCH | Shoot the bolt - after European borders close to Luxembourg get on, the Spanish hide in roof covering (6,3,5) |
| EPHRAIM | At European border heard of Joseph's lad |
| ELITIST | Exclusive type of Italian within European border |