| PRESUMED | Was impertinent, having again taken up power at the top |
| NONEONYOURCHEEK | Do not be impertinent having nothing from second person's feature (4,2,4,5) |
| ODIUM | Hatred in speaker's position after losing power at the top (5) |
| PECTORALGIRDLE | Structure for supporting managing director legal, there's power at the top |
| PRESENT | Begrudge power at the top here (7) |
| SUPREME | Certain the writer packs power at the topmost level (7) |
| NERVA | Considered one of the "Five Good Emperors," he came to power at the age of 66. |
| KUNDALINI | From Sanskrit for "snake", coiled energy or "serpent power" at the base of the spine, according to yogis (9) |
| COAST | Get along without power at the seaside (5) |
| DISCERNING | Astute nuclear lab supplants power at the heart of CND's aim |
| ELOPE | Did an old band, in short, have power, at the end, to get to a match (5) |
| EGRET | Get cracking, having again captured the bird (5) |
| INEXPERT | At home was impertinent and unskilled |
| THREATEN | Bully, time and time again taken down (8) |
| OXYMORONS | Old axes then again taken into battle, ridiculous things (9) |
| REDCROSS | Democrat having again to go over housing organisation (3,5) |
| ARABIST | Language student again taken in by a rogue (7) |
| REBUTTED | Denied having again struck a heady blow! (8) |
| REREDORTER | Note soldiers having again stepped back where monk would have gone |
| REDCHEEKED | Blushing left-winger was impertinent (3-7) |
