| SEMIFINALIST | One of four maybe succeeded as film tie-in arranged |
| INNINGS | Lord's action? One of four maybe |
| KINETICART | Tie-in arranged in section of recording over mobile? |
| SWEEP | Take four out of four, maybe |
| TETRAD | Gang of Four maybe rush back to capture alien (6) |
| ROWER | Agricultural employee heading off is one in four, maybe (5) |
| OARSMAN | A Roman's upset one in four, maybe (7) |
| SSARECROPS | Farms in US maybe succeeded following cut after cut (10) |
| QUIZSHOW | Mastermind maybe succeeded in grilling method |
| BRALESS | Old railway porter’s maybe succeeded in freeing chest? |
| ETEOCLES | In Greek mythology, the son of Oedipus, whom he succeeded as king of Thebes along with his brother Polynices (8) |
| MOMBASA | City succeeded as capital of British East Africa (modern Kenya) in 1907 (7) |
| TEATIME | Meet one at around four maybe (7) |
| MASSNUMBER | He's four, maybe summer ban's out of order? (4,6) |
| ABAT | Take _ ___ in your hand.... and hit ; four, maybe (1,3) |
| SCIENTIST | Hawking maybe succeeded, since tit's injured (9) |
| EDMUND | - Ironside; son of Ethelred the Unready who was succeeded as king of the English by Canute (6) |
| HUGHGAITSKELL | British politician succeeded as leader of the Labour Party by Harold Wilson in 1963 (4,9) |
| ISABELLA | French wife of English king Edward II, whom she deposed and succeeded as regent in 1326 (8) |
| SQUAREPEG | Succeeded as salesman, say, who's in the wrong job? |
