| LIKEADOGSDINNER | Ostentatiously dressed as Marie Prevost was, according to rumour? |
| LAIR | Ostentatiously dressed show-off (Aus. informal) |
| SPIV | Ostentatiously dressed wheeler-dealer (4) |
| LUPINO | Ida, actress-director who appeared as Marie Garson in the film High Sierra (6) |
| EAT | "Let them ___ cake." ...it's what legendary Star political cartoonist Duncan Macpherson has John Diefenbaker saying as Marie Antoinette after the Prime Minister cancelled the project at #33-Across in |
| ISLE | "... this uncharted desert ___" (where Gilligan was, according to the theme song) |
| ROLLINGSTONE | Magazine reveals what papa was, according to the Temptations (7,5) |
| CHARTTOPPER | Jack the Ripper was, according to Spooner, Top Of The Pops |
| ANNAKARENINA | ____ was, according to Tolstoy, his first true novel |
| REIGN | What Beatrix of the Netherlands used to do in the shower, according to rumour (5) |
| WHISPER | Women's Institute's admitting husband according to rumour (7) |
| KORMA | According to rumour, my old lady's a dish |
| GIZA | Where the Sphinx is an old man, according to rumour (4) |
| GRAPEVINE | VIP enraged after sacking director on the fiddle according to rumour |
| SMEAR | A test of some campaign, according to rumour (5) |
| NIGHT | The Dark Lord's sidekick from the old days, according to rumour (5) |
| DJINN | Spirit drink according to rumour (5) |
| BUSHTELEGRAPH | The pub's lager, brewed with foremost of hops, according to rumour (4,9) |
| REPORTEDLY | According to rumour (10) |
| SOIHEAR | Air hose busted, according to rumours (2,1,4) |
