| SELFEXPLANATORY | Legend, about pixie and old partner with proposal and answer, easily understood (4-11) |
| SELFCENTREDNESS | Sign of embarrassment after track about pixie with narcissism (4-11) |
| HANSELANDGRETEL | ... has learnt legend about children abandoned in forest (6,3,6) |
| ENGAGEMENTPARTY | Celebration between a proposal and a wedding |
| PRESSCONFERENCE | Question-and-answer session for journalists (5,10) |
| IDEEFIXE | Sets-up old partner with one means of broadcasting from island - it's an obsession (4,4) |
| EXTREME | Severe old partner with time about to meet me (7) |
| EXHUME | Unearth old partner with a moral and political philosopher (6) |
| EXCURSUS | Detailed written discussion at the back by old partner with dogs from America (8) |
| EXUBERANT | Cheerful car service committed to old partner with tan convertible (9) |
| ANTI | He's against the proposal and ain't going to change! (4) |
| DEMI | _ _ _ _ Moore, U.S. actress who starred in the films Indecent Proposal and Disclosure (4) |
| IDEA | In the end, Russell returns to papers with proposal (4) |
| SELFJUSTIFYING | Gnome with pixie and only doubt for article of type that adjusts automatically |
| ARABIA | John Johnson-Allen from Great Moulton wrote T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol: The Royal Navy's Role in Creating the Legend about the role of the Royal Navy in creating the legend that was Lawrenc |
| IRVING | Author "Geoffrey Crayon" who wrote of a book of sketches or stories that includes a legend about Sleepy Hollow and a tale about a henpecked husband called Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| EXULTS | Delights old partner with unrestrained lust (6) |
| CODEX | Fool old partner with manuscript (5) |
| EXONERATE | Acquit old partner with working period note (9) |
| EXTOL | Highly praise old partner with upstanding group (5) |
