| SPRAYGUN | Speak up after first score from the Arsenal gives someone the opportunity to paint the town red perh |
| ISOMETRY | Relates to muscular tension produced by a few after first score in rugby match (8) |
| ORDNANCE | Gets fired from The Arsenal (8) |
| FORENSICSCIENCE | Gives someone the time of day when someone was late with DNA research (8,7) |
| ELUDES | Gives someone the slip (6) |
| SNUBS | Gives someone the cold shoulder |
| LIVEITUP | I've chucked in tulip cultivation to paint the town red (4,2,2) |
| ROISTER | Unit interrupting work schedule to paint the town red (7) |
| CELEBRATE | Famous person, judge, to paint the town red (9) |
| EYEOPENER | In the middle of storm, centre gets the first score - it's astonishing to one of the viewers (3-6) |
| ELGRECO | Nickname of the artist commissioned by Philip II of Spain to paint the altarpiece The Martyrdom of St Maurice, who was sacked shortly after its completion (2,5) |
| RED | Colour to paint the town |
| BREAKONESDUCK | Deviously sack Burke? Done to notch up the first score (5,4,4) |
| MELTON | Cloth named after its pork pie-producing, "paint the town red" place of origin, traditionally used for black hunt jackets, pinks and overcoats (6) |
| TRACTORS | Players almost score from the start, breaking new ground across the turf (8) |
| AESOP | Story-teller having to sit up after first of allegories |
| ILLATEASE | Wind up after first lifting the lot on edge (3,2,4) |
| GELIGNITE | Turns up, Oriental can get soldier to table support for those in the arsenal (9) |
| APOLOGISTS | Hits goalpost bending around one for first score making excuses for The Defence (10) |
| ESPRITDELESCALIER | Thinking of a witty retort after the opportunity to make it has passed (6,2,9) |
