| ORWELLIAN | Like Napoleon, perhaps, Nero is rampaging with a will |
| IMPERIAL | Like Napoleon, perhaps put in danger without army's leader |
| LOCATE | Find a colt rampaging with energy (6) |
| EGREGIOUS | Shocking! George is rampaging round university (9) |
| EXPERT | Really good and cross, Peter is rampaging round (6) |
| PIGEONHOLE | Classify Napoleon perhaps, a long time over the golfing target (10) |
| IMPERIL | Perhaps, like Napoleon, avoiding a risk (7) |
| NOSIER | In a way, Nero is more intrusive than anyone else (6) |
| SENIOR | Nero is perhaps higher in rank (6) |
| CORSICAN | Gold thus preserved Napoleon, perhaps? (8) |
| DECAMPING | Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north (9) |
| COGNAC | A spirit, like Napoleon, can go back up to a hundred you might get down! (6) |
| ABLE | Like Napoleon, in a palindrome |
| OINKED | Nothing perhaps written or spoken like Napoleon? (6) |
| ROUEN | Where in France Nero is wrong for upper-class centre (5) |
| ROI | Nero is playing his fiddle to amuse the French king (3) |
| NOISIER | Nero is wildly more intrusive than anyone else (7) |
| ONCEMORE | Come! Nero is dancing again (4,4) |
| KALE | Cavolo nero is an Italian variety of this vegetable |
| REASON | Why? Because Nero is frisking about (6) |
