| DIALOGUE | It's the loud age and I get into it with the expected conversation piece (8) |
| FRANK | To be honest, it's the loud music where the taxis are (5) |
| AGONISE | No! It's been ages and I worry about the consequences |
| SQUIB | Damp _ _ _ _ _ , something that fails to go off with the expected bang (5) |
| BIFOCALS | Make up most of the story about conversation pieces in the Gaeltacht and those seeing things (8) |
| DEBATING | Bad gent and I get into trouble arguing? (8) |
| REYNOLDS | Plymptonian knighted master portraitist depicted among fellow academicians of the Royal Academy, along with his silver ear-trumpet, in an iconic observational conversation piece by Johann Zoffany (8) |
| OVERSHOE | Love poem about heart in euphoria, might Oxford get into it? (8) |
| AMPHIBIAN | This morning, PH and I get into it - Brian gets right out of it whether in or out of the water (9) |
| SORORITY | Women rush to get into it |
| SNIPPETS | Conversation pieces? |
| COTERIE | Circle the bed before I get into it (7) |
| COSTARICA | Leading actor and I get into half the Coke in Central America (5,4) |
| ABYSSINIA | Ian and I get into trouble at the end of chasm in Ethiopia, previously (9) |
| EVISCERATION | I.e, carves into it with removal of guts (12) |
| EVENNUMBER | Two will go into it with less feeling still (4,6) |
| BRAILLE | Bar close to Lommel in Belgium - on paper, one can read a lot into it with feeling (7) |
| PERIODICTABLE | He and I get into such rows! |
| LIBERTINE | Lustful little man and I get into row |
| STUBBS | Artist noted for depictions of sporting life, horses, exotic animals and conversation pieces, such as Whistle jacket, Horse Attacked by a Lion and The Prince of Wales's Phaeton (6) |
