| ARCTIC | On the 3rd December, I was in my car in West Tockenham when it broke down - it was freezing cold (6) |
| FOVANT | I was driving my van to Fivehead when it broke down on the A30, between Salisbury and Shaftesbury (6) |
| VERYAN | On the way back to East Looe, halfway through my journey, my van broke down -- it was somewhere near Portloe (6) |
| ALAD | When I was in my childhood? (1,3) |
| ICECOLD | Little Edward, stricken with colic, was freezing (3,4) |
| NINTH | Traditionally, on this day over Christmas, ladies dance around West Tockenham in top hats in the middle of the morning! (5) |
| CAIRO | I love being in my car in Egypt |
| ENTHRAL | I'm taking my sweetheart to a large hotel near West Tockenham in order to get her full attention (7) |
| CRIMINALLY | Terribly ill in my car, in a bad way (10) |
| SOSA | Sammy. . . , Chicago Cubs baseball player found to have used an illegal cork-filled bat when it broke during a match in 2003 (4) |
| INNERTUBE | Bearing in turbine broke down - it might need a pump to get going (5,4) |
| DERULO | Jason, U.S. singer/songwriter whose first UK No 1 hit was In My Head in 2010 (6) |
| CANCEL | Make clean break around 3rd December and cross it off (6) |
| DECENT | When about ten and in early December I had to look respectable |
| SECEDE | See! In December I withdraw from federation (6) |
| DECIDE | After early December, I would make a final judgement |
| IDIOCY | Stupidity of Boz in function in freezing cold (6) |
| PANGEA | It broke up in the age of dinosaurs |
| ILFRACOMBE | My mobile and four cufflinks were in my car when it got broken into while I was visiting this resort on the North Devon coast (10) |
| CHILLY | Freezing cold, as the Downs are (6) |
