| ROCKETSCIENTIST | Stick insect tore about, the clever chap |
| MENSA | Group for the clever chaps observed losing weight (5) |
| COVERLETTER | Missive to explain about the clever otter (5,6) |
| PROMOTERS | Match arrangers tore about in the concerts (9) |
| MIMICRY | The act/skill of apery or burlesque; or, the resemblance of an organism, such as a stick insect, to another animal/object, such as a twig (7) |
| MAKEHASTE | Clever chap parrots note about heroin and speed |
| DOR | Put back the stick insect (3) |
| ROTE | Tore about without regard to meaning |
| RELEVANT | Tore about, collecting veal mince that was suitable (8) |
| METEORIC | Remarkably quick mice tore about |
| OFACERTAINAGE | Senior again tore about clutching mug (2,1,7,3) |
| METEOR | First person tore about some flying rock (6) |
| OVERTOPPLE | People tore about pitch (10) |
| ISABELLATOWER | Wallabies tore about Ardglass' 9th hole (8,5) |
| TORRENT | At a high point, tore about in a flood (7) |
| TUSSORE | United States ship tore about in a material way (7) |
| LEAFINSECT | Tropical creature related to the stick insect with a green or brown flattened body (4,6) |
| RUSHED | Tore about |
| DIEDBACK | Clever chap keeping abed, sadly withered (4,4) |
| WHIZ | Clever chap saw Hizbollah as shield (4) |
