| SAWS | These are our SA weather scientists, watchers and warners. Accronym. (4) |
| EMSF | Accronym for the day |
| IDLERS | Clock watchers and couch potatoes |
| MARINE | The SA Weather Service underreported the boiling steam coming off the ocean which dumped rain on KZN and the EC, calling it ... air. (6) |
| CUTOFF | Durban was not hit by a cyclone, says the SA Weather Service, it was a ... low pressure system (Snip snip) which dumped the rain. (6) |
| ONUS | They are our shoulders that must bear the responsibility (4) |
| EXES | Fortensky and Warner, to Liz Taylor |
| BROS | Warners and Ringlings: Abbr. |
| BRAS | Warner's and Wacoal undergarments |
| THEO | Malcolm-Jamal Warner's role on The Cosby Show |
| HEARTOFOAK | "___ are our ships/Jolly tars are our men..." |
| PATHS | "Our feelings are our most genuine ___ to knowledge" (Audre Lorde) |
| EYE | Watcher ... and homophone of a letter that appears exactly once in every clue and all but two answers |
| WINDCHEATER | To be a watcher and dine at the same time you need an anorak! (11) |
| AGENTNOUNS | Watcher and wiretapper, say, spy us abroad, catching name |
| CANNAVALE | Bobby - - - - - - - - -, star of The Watcher and Blonde (9) |
| WISDOM | These teeth are our last (6) |
| SUBZERO | Returning Australian coach hugs Clarke and Warner in the end for scoring less than duck in Heat! (3-4) |
| BETTERS | Backers, it seems, are our superiors (7) |
| HEADSOFINDUSTRY | Dishonesty, fraud, corruption . . . they are our business leaders! (5,2,8) |
