| GIVER | One who is disposed to charitable acts (5) |
| WISH | Who is disposed, despite losing ring, to express a desire? (4) |
| BENEVOLENCE | An inclination to do charitable acts - goodness! |
| GOODWORKS | Go overdrawn with factory's charitable acts |
| NOISE | One is disposed to make a racket (5) |
| LEANS | Is disposed to some terrible answers |
| TENDS | Is disposed (to) |
| BRIBE | Word, from "lump of bread given to a beggar", that over time changed its meaning from said charitable act to a corrupt act informally called a back-hander, boodle, bung or buy-off (5) |
| ENLARGE | Clinging on to plaice finally, angler is disposed to do this? (7) |
| CHAMPATTHEBIT | Winner that I bet is disposed to be impatient (5,2,3,3) |
| ANIMOSITY | Timon, I say, is disposed to hate (9) |
| EMINENCE | Having dropped a name, niece is disposed to be celebrity (8) |
| EDITORIALS | Idolater is disposed to get opinions on paper |
| STRIDENT | Its trend is disposed to be unpleasantly harsh (8) |
| REOPEN | No peer is disposed to start trading again (6) |
| OBTRUDE | Doubter is disposed to be intrusive |
| SURPRISE | Drunken purser is disposed to stagger (8) |
| FANTASISE | Daydream, as a fan getting a seat is disposed to (9) |
| AGONISE | Getting on in age, is disposed to worry (7) |
| LAWLESS | Well, ass is disposed to be unruly (7) |
