| TANKER | Oil carrier taken mistakenly on river (6) |
| APERITIVE | Laxative taken mistakenly - in private, that is (9) |
| AKHENATEN | A hen taken mistakenly for a Pharaoh? "Tut!" went his son, Tut (9) |
| PIPELINE | Controversial oil carrier |
| BERGAMOT | Oil carrier bound for north-west Africa heading north an hour away (8) |
| TANKERS | Oil carriers |
| WEAPON | Knife, say, mistakenly put on a pew (6) |
| ADDUCE | Cite a theologian on cue mistakenly (6) |
| THEIRS | Wrongly put me on to the Internal Revenue Service - others mistakenly handed over belongings (4,2,6,2,5) |
| GAVEME | Wrongly put me on to the Internal Revenue Service - others mistakenly handed over belongings (4,2,6,2,5) |
| SPLICE | Clips mistakenly put on back of one part of a bat (6) |
| DULCET | 'Mellifluous' clued mistakenly and I missed it (6) |
| DATIVE | Rodney mistakenly put it back in case (6) |
| HOOTER | Mistakenly, hero to cause alarm (6) |
| NICKEL | Mistakenly liken cent to 5 (6) |
| ONRUSH | Our NHS mistakenly makes charge (6) |
| STEAMY | Tropical divers mistakenly missing broken link (6) |
| UNITES | Merges iTunes mistakenly (6) |
| HALTED | Stopped or had, mistakenly, let through (6) |
| RIALTO | Italian bridge books returned by rail, mistakenly (6) |
