| FORBEARING | Understanding why we need a compass (10) |
| GEOMETRY | Course you need a compass to navigate? |
| SECONDSIGHT | Foreknowledge, is it why we need two eyes? (6,5) |
| CLEMENCY | 150 eastern men see why we need mercy (8) |
| KENYA | Understanding why speech touches a country (5) |
| KENYAN | African understanding why many avoiding the borders (6) |
| BULLDURHAM | 1988 movie with the line "What do we need a scoreboard for? We haven't scored any runs all season." (2 wds.) |
| EARTRUMPET | Mutter "pare" incoherently - we need a hearing aid (3,7) |
| EVENTUALLY | "We need a party planner" |
| TWELFTHMAN | “We need a ____ here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be havin’ you!” (Delia Smith) |
| NEWSWORTHY | Why we snort dubiously is significant (10) |
| GREATMINDS | Why we get the same spontaneous ideas (5,5,5,5) |
| COUNTYMAYO | Reckon why, we hear, magistrate's mainly found in part of Ireland (6,4) |
| ELEMENTARY | "____ particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them" (Steven Weinberg) |
| THINKALIKE | Is this why we have the same spontaneous ideas? (5,5,5,5) |
| WHEAT | We need a hat when we harvest this cereal (5) |
| WEAK | Being poor, we need a bit of a break (4) |
| MAME | "We Need a Little Christmas" singer |
| SANTADEARWEREINAHURRY | Line from "We Need a Little Christmas" |
| THERM | We need a heating unit ___ take in those ones (5) |
