| INTENSIFICATION | Stepping up, popular figures start to inspire area in literary genre? (15) |
| ANIMATES | Inspires area for Ulster to find partners (8) |
| CANNINESS | Caution taken with money, might figures start to spiral? (9) |
| CLIMB | Several Roman figures start to back ascent (5) |
| INTERNS | Work trainees, popular figures? About right (7) |
| INTENSELY | Popular figures see very much (9) |
| PINNUMBER | Photo opens with this popular figure's access code (3,6) |
| EDIFICATION | Journalist with one article engaged in literary genre for improvement (11) |
| ROMANTICFICTION | Comic trio and infant represented in literary genre (8,7) |
| SCIENCEFICTION | Fine conceit is at play around chapter in literary genre (7,7) |
| FRICTION | Antagonism right in literary genre (8) |
| ECUMENICAL | Turns up, popular bird caught in Chantilly, for example, is used to promote unity (10) |
| AMPHIBIA | One medic fixing broken hip starts to inspire awe in a class |
| RAISIN | Stepping up to pluck the last fruit |
| SURPRISING | Sneaking up on leaders stepping up revolutionary planning for Easter 1916 (10) |
| HITSON | Tries to pick up popular tune that hasn't finished (4,2) |
| INIMICAL | Ridiculous claim to hold up popular setter as unfriendly |
| NISSENHUT | Put up popular nurse in secure shelter (6,3) |
| INBRIEF | To sum up: popular fibre needs reprocessing (2,5) |
| NICOLA | Jimmy King's wife in Emmerdale served up popular fizzy drink (6) |
