| TROPOSPHERE | Left to throw up round ball: it's low in the air |
| LOOKINGDOWNON | Is patronising to gents from The Palace finding it's low in spirits to order? What's new! (7,4,2) |
| LANTERNS | The Tanners get left to throw light on the subject (8) |
| ABSOLUTEZERO | Theoretically, the lowest of the low in the terribly cold state (8,4) |
| TIDE | The high and the low, in the main (4) |
| EXPEL | Old exercise left to throw out (5) |
| LABOUR | In party game, round ball's briefly picked up |
| CATCH | Understand how to get hold of the ball. It's worth having (5) |
| POUFFE | Lying low in the drawing room, the original detective writer embraces paramilitary group (6) |
| OVERLADEN | Left between ports with prow dropping low in the water? |
| SMOOTH | Soft at the edges, low in the middle, hard and flat (6) |
| PELLET | George starts eating the small round ball (6) |
| GLOBE | Round ball with a map of the world on it |
| MOTORBOAT | Fluid defence keeps closed round ball — nothing to row about |
| TOTALLED | Carried around the topless ball - it's completely wrecked (8) |
| NERF | Kind of ball it's hard to hurt anyone with |
| GOODRIDDANCE | Right to dispose of ball, it's a welcome deliverance (4,8) |
| HOMESTRETCH | Made them so sick, to throw up in the final run (4,7) |
| KISSINGCOUSIN | One relatively low in the pecking order? |
| CHIDED | Lie low in the Civil Defence, but told off (6) |
