| POWERPOINT | Starts 15 across with tip - give it a plug, otherwise it's useless (5,5) |
| CONFUSES | Opens 15 across with tip for some puzzles (8) |
| FIRESALE | Starts 15 across with initial stiff drink - it suggests closing time might be an option (4,4) |
| DAYLIGHT | Starts 15 across with Dawn (8) |
| MOOTPOINTS | It's useless to argue over them |
| LOSTCAUSES | Starts 15 across from seed on topsoil and has a word with St Anthony about them (4,6) |
| PEACH | When I'm near, charge president with misconduct, otherwise it's just a schnapps (5) |
| BEAD | With right partner to jam otherwise it's one of a string (4) |
| LORDHAWHAW | 15 Across with a drawl (and how!) Hitler at first converted (4,3-3) |
| CATCHAFISH | Opening 15 across with a bass to pick something up from The River (5,1,4) |
| EROSION | Noise or otherwise, it's a feature of coastlines (7) |
| ALLEGRO | Legal or otherwise it's a lively movement (7) |
| ELSE | Otherwise it's part of a chapel service (4) |
| DETONATE | Start 15 in school, in a year? |
| THORNIEST | Shorten it - otherwise it's most unpleasant (9) |
| ORAL | Otherwise it's a Latin viva voce (4) |
| OBSTACLE | Close tab, otherwise it's a hindrance |
| TRUSTY | Tea becomes corroded but otherwise it's most reliable (6) |
| DROOL | Old or otherwise, it's what those slavering do (5) |
| FILTHY | Hit fly for six, otherwise it's most unclean (6) |
