| PILLAGES | Sacks, heaps of them, the convict gets through (8) |
| GOAL | The convict gets nothing of what he's aiming for (4) |
| COMPILER | He sets 8 (heaps of them?) (8) |
| BRASSTACKS | Undergarment - heaps of them - are the fundamentals (5,5) |
| SCRAPYARD | Vehicle rejected after endless trouble? Heaps of them here |
| UNCLOTHE | Strip uncle of them, the last ones going |
| CASTIRON | Convict gets outside a prison? It's very hard (4,4) |
| ZIEGFELD | From 1907, the New York revues based on the Folies-Bergere were called, after the theatre manager who produced them, the ... Follies |
| CONTRITE | Banal after the convict is sorry (8) |
| FARTHEST | Trump starts to harass emigrants, sending them the greatest distance possible (8) |
| TITMOUSE | I tut to some and give them the bird (8) |
| ENDORSES | At last, heads off some animals, and gives them the green light (8) |
| REPTILES | Such pert lies from them - the creeps! (8) |
| TIMEWORN | Like the convicts" old clothes? (8) |
| GIVEWITH | Get them all hyped up or give them the sack with gusto ... (4,4,10) |
| KINSHASA | Capital about 22 miles from Brazzaville, making them the second-closest pair of world capitals (behind Vatican City and Rome) |
| FINDAWAY | Proverb stating that passion between two people affords them the determination to be together (4) |
| DEMON | University lecturer imbibes half of them, the devil! (5) |
| DENIAL | Cut flowers? Two of them, the second after receiving a rejection (6) |
| POOR | Bad eggs (two of them) the pair is protecting (4) |
