| OVERRUFFS | Wins trick a certain way with unusual fervour and with favourite spade (9) |
| HEARTILY | With fervour and with ribaldry, showing shift in character? (8) |
| DIRECTCURRENT | Make the river flow a certain way with electricity (6,7) |
| CONQUER | Win trick with two queens (7) |
| TREY | Card that rarely wins tricks |
| CONNUBIAL | Trick a Nile region student concerned with marriage (9) |
| HOODWINKS | Tricks a thug then flirts with eye (9) |
| PASS | Word for a col, gap or way between mountains; an event; a fish-ladder; a free ticket; a juggling trick; a permit; a proposition; a sally of wit; or, a thrust with a sword (4) |
| PETROLEUM | Well content with favourite part, a classy number (9) |
| PETTICOAT | Undergarment I cover with favourite tee on top (9) |
| CURBSTONE | Dog with favourite food around street? Edge of street in America (9) |
| INTERPRET | Make clear, together with favourite around end of year (9) |
| INFIGHTER | One adept at intrigue with favourite warplane (9) |
| SALTPETRE | Alters structure with favourite form of potassium (9) |
| PUPPETEER | Nobleman keeping up with favourite show producer (9) |
| GIN | An artifice or trick; a contrivance for snaring game; a horse mill; a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds; a variant of rummy; or, from "juniper", an ardent spirit flavoured with the berry-like c |
| ITALIANSONNET | Review internationals with no end of fervour and poetic lines (7,6) |
| HOWE | Gordie ___ hat trick (a goal, an assist, and a fight in the same game) |
| DODGE | A swift evasive dart, dive or duck; a trick; a quibble; or, the action of two change-ringing bells trading places (5) |
| TOY | An old word for amorous sport/ play, frivolous entertainment, an antic or a trick; a trifling object or plaything, such as a doll, miniature, model, teddy bear or tin soldier; or, something diminutive |
