| NOBELPRIZE | Noel goes round top brass to get award with international status (5,5) |
| SAILOR | Australian winger achieved dual international status 2002 (6) |
| BOOTSTRAPS | Top brass to supply means of helping clodhoppers get on? (10) |
| ELON | Where Noel goes to college |
| NEONLIGHT | Noel goes astray in darkness, lacking this? (4,5) |
| BASK | Top brass to ask to lie in the sun (4) |
| BLESS | Glorify top brass to a smaller extent |
| BARRAGEBALLOON | Barbara and Noel go wild about large blimp (7,7) |
| ENTERPRISE | Go in to get award, say, for initiative (10) |
| CORDONBLEU | Old bouncer trained to get award as cook (6,4) |
| ADJUDICATE | Advert by old German, describing tart, about to get award (10) |
| NOLIRICTOR | Which Pitjantjatjara elder won the 2024 Telstra Art Award at the prestigious NATSIAAs awards with his painting Kamanti? (4,6) |
| ROBBECKETT | Comedian who co-hosted the 2023 BAFTA awards with Romesh Ranganathan (3,7) |
| ADAMLEVINE | He attended the Breakthrough Prize Awards with Behati Prinsloo |
| AMYSCHUMER | American stand-up comedian who co-hosted the 2022 Academy Awards with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes |
| ADJUDGE | Failure to impress Jack in time to get award (7) |
| NOBELPEACEPRIZE | Toff with the Spanish composition intrudes, we hear, to get award |
| PRIX | Last characters in Capri with ten to get award in France (4) |
| EMMY | I object to return of mine to get award (4) |
| OBEY | Follow orders to get award at start of year |
