| TAILENDER | Offer to tackle trouble for nightwatchman? |
| INDETAIL | Independent European beginning to tackle trouble point by point (2,6) |
| SHEPHERD | Lamb's tender for nightwatchman? (8) |
| ASTRONOMER | Spends a lot of time looking into space for nightwatchman (10) |
| CIVILLY | Conservative climber tackles trouble with courtesy (7) |
| GAMEOFCRICKET | Springbok takes to old French sport with a ball - nightwatchman might be required to leave pavilion for this (4,2,7) |
| DOOSRA | Entrance contains parcels at the back - a delivery to nightwatchman? |
| SENTINEL | Possibly nightwatchman the Spanish asked to bat earlier (8) |
| KEEPGUARD | Hold onto a nightwatchman, in order to make the rounds (4,5) |
| RUNOUT | At the start of the game, leave the pavilion to dismiss a nightwatchman? (3,3) |
| STARGAZE | What a nightwatchman might do for sun on unfinished strip on the Mediterranean going towards Spain (8) |
| BURGLARALARM | A sound defence aiding nightwatchman? |
| STARGAZES | Acts as nightwatchman? (9) |
| REMBRANDT | The Nightwatchman? |
| GASTRONOME | Good nightwatchman runs off with foodie (10) |
| SHOTINTHEDARK | How the nightwatchman was murdered? It's just a guess (4,2,3,4) |
| BATSMAN | Nightwatchman perhaps starts with a Tequila Sunrise mingling in bar (7) |
| MANN | Tony, Australia nightwatchman who scored 105 against India in 1977 (4) |
| VINODRAI | 'Not Just a Nightwatchman' is the title of whose new book. (5,3) |
| VEGETABLEGARDEN | Where one used to Dig for Victory and become competent to tackle danger? (9,6) |