| UNTYPICAL | Paint Lucy tripping, which is not what you'd expect |
| SHAM | Useless performers move last item to the start which is not what was advertised |
| OUTOFKEEPING | The retired goalkeeper is not what you'd expect (3,2,7) |
| LOWTECH | Utterance from Buttercup College is not what you'd call rocket science (3-4) |
| FOOLSGOLD | Assessor rejecting second mineral that is not what it seems (5,4) |
| UNREAL | Strange - not what you'd expect from a King - not good |
| LIGHTSENTENCE | It's not what you'd expect of high literature and that's not a judgement perhaps that carries much weight (5,8) |
| IRONY | It's not what you'd expect |
| UNCONVENTIONAL | United Nations assembly attended by almost everyone? Not what you'd expect |
| RUM | Not what you'd expect from a tot |
| SITDOWN | Not what you'd expect the Prommers to do? (3,4) |
| PARSONAGE | Minister's home is what you'd expect with wise person holding on (9) |
| INSHORT | Dressed for cycling almost? Not what you'd expect a rambler to say (2,5) |
| GODPARENT | Sponsor wanting party on the up, what you'd expect in civilised chap (9) |
| FALSEHOOD | Just what you'd expect from a phoney hoodlum (9) |
| EAVESDROP | It's what you'd expect snoop to do with English designed vase? Give up! (9) |
| ADEPTNESS | What you'd expect from a department head? |
| PSEUDO | By the way, European party is not what it thinks it is (6) |
| WITHOUTACLUE | A film is not what the answer is |
| SAINT | Starr initially is not what Lennon, McCartney, or Harrison nominally is (5) |
