| LOUDMOUTHED | Play duet with 5, making tactless remarks (4-7) |
| GAFFES | I run away from long-necked Africans making tactless remarks (6) |
| TOPI | Work in outskirts of 5, making pith helmet |
| CLANGER | Family with German making tactless comment (7) |
| BLUNDERBUSS | Tactless remarks about black American's old musket |
| BRICKS | Indiscreet or tactless remarks dropped regarding the builder's blocks (6) |
| MONITORED | Watched Five making a comeback with cover of Roger Daltrey's debut |
| DUVET | Work for a couple around five making quilt (5) |
| NEGATIVENUMBER | Dicky, being numerate, collects five making a quantity less than zero? (8,6) |
| CLAUDEMONET | Impression, man, of unlikely duet with coalmen? (6,5) |
| TONYBENNETT | Crooner who sang a duet with Lady Gaga on the standard Cheek to Cheek at the 2015 Grammys: 2 wds. |
| ENDLESSLOVE | Song by Lionel Richie which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross and which was later covered by Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey |
| ETUDE | Play duet followed by English solo composition (5) |
| PUTONESFOOTINIT | Cause embarrassment with a tactless remark (3,4,4,2,2) |
| DROPABRICK | Make a tactless remark (4,1,5) |
| GAFFE | Boss almost making a tactless remark (5) |
| CLANG | Sound of someone making a tactless remark? (5) |
| GAFF | Pole's tactless remark putting English off (4) |
| GIRAFFE | Tactless remark describing Kirk essentially as an animal (7) |
| FAUXPAS | Tactless remark (4,3) |
