| ARTSCOUNCIL | Government or private body, the object of which is to promote the fields of performance, music, pain |
| GOBANG | The object of which is to make a line of five men explode (6) |
| EYE | "Public" or "private" body part |
| OMBUDSMAN | Person who investigates complaints against the government or private businesses (9) |
| BACCARAT | Gambling card game, the aim of which is to form a hand whose point value is nearer to nine than the hand of the banker (8) |
| LYRE | Instrument of Sumerian origin having a yoke, or two arms and a crossbar, projecting out from and level with the body. The strings run from a tailpiece on the bottom or front of the instrument to the c |
| BULK | From the Old Norse for "cargo", a ship's freight or hold; the volume of a great size; the main or greater part; any huge body; the thickness of paper; or, dietary fibre/roughage (4) |
| COMMUNICATE | Crickets ___ with various types of chirps. A calling song which is to find a potential mate. A courting song which is sung when the female accepts the male as her mate and another type of chirp which |
| CORSAGE | From the Latin for "body", the bodice of a dress; or, a posy or small bouquet worn pinned to said garment or on the wrist (7) |
| REINCARNATION | The belief that on the death of the body the soul is born again in another body (13) |
| DOUBLEBASS | Two goals in school - one of which is to play in the band (6,4) |
| CAUCASUS | This mountain system lies between the Black Sea (which is to its west) and the Caspian Sea (which is to its east). It reaches across parts of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. (8) |
| IRRIGATION | The supply of water to land to promote the growth of food crops (10) |
| FENGSHUI | Meaning "wind, water", Chinese discipline of spatial arrangement to promote the flow of chi or qi (4,4) |
| OXYGEN | Accounting for 65 per cent of the mass of the human body, the third-most abundant element in the universe, atomic number eight (6) |
| SUPPER | Meal, purpose of which is to have nothing less (6) |
| GOLDFINCH | Colourful bird that is plentiful in the Balearic Islands, especially in the fields of Mallorca where it likes to eat thistle seeds (9) |
| SLOGANEER | One who coins or often uses catchphrases, usually in the fields of politics or commerce (9) |
| HUGHGRANT | Actor in the "Bridget Jones" movies who appeared recently on Seth Meyers' show to promote the forthcoming fourth installment in the series, "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" |
| ELEMENTAL | The foreign cheese lacks a bit of moisture, which is to do with the weather (9) |
