| EARNED | It's lax from Alexander - a reputation perhaps acquired deservedly (6) |
| TABLEAUX | You get wee Alexander a tab following representations (8) |
| SSE | Dir. of LAX from SFO |
| ADLIBS | Impromptus, primarily from Alexander Scriabin, including early pieces from Debussy, Liszt, Ibert and Bartok (2-4) |
| UNREAD | Far from bloody outstanding article - deservedly so? (6) |
| CAMEIN | Recently arrived and deservedly fair cinema production (4,4,4,2) |
| APOSTROPHE | It's feature of short piece from Alexander Pope work (10) |
| SPOTLESS | "Eternal sunshine of the ___ mind!", line from Alexander Pope's Eloisa To Abelard (8) |
| PARLANCE | Introduction to Pointless, with tips from Alexander Armstrong, maybe identifying idiom (8) |
| ERR | "To _ is human", quotation from Alexander Pope's 1711 poem "An Essay on Criticism" (3) |
| EARN | Deservedly get a listener by end of session (4) |
| URN | One is told one will deservedly get such a repository (3) |
| MERITED | Determined to dispose of dotty Den, deservedly! (7) |
| EARTHEN | Deservedly get to hold article of baked clay (7) |
| ONMERIT | Apprentice head over heels about music mag - deservedly so |
| IURE | Rightly and deservedly (adv.) in the soup |
| REMAP | Deservedly get to cover number one in music chart again |
| EARNS | Deservedly gets an audience with the Poles (5) |
| RECAP | Deservedly get to have chapter put in summary |
| ONLYJUST | Recently arrived and deservedly fair cinema production (4,4,4,2) |