| Clues down |
| 2 | First-rate bun turns up in head-wrap (5) |
| 3 | Blood-vessel seen in song-bird after swallowing tablet and losing first of notes (9) |
| 4 | Deserve payment – but don’t start to gain knowledge (4) |
| 5 | Opera has wild actors – not right! (5) |
| 6 | Attractive dandy with whom we hear you flirt madly, losing reputation initially (9) |
| 7 | Lace – playing at opening of theatre – is brilliant success (5) |
| 8 | Groan in stupid fashion when surrounded by paintings – how conceited! (8) |
| 13 | Noblemen provide supports for bridge, we’re told (5) |
| 15 | Italian patriot takes the biscuit (9) |
| 16 | Princess’s first of contacts on left wing with sex appeal results in disgrace (9) |
| 17 | Spoke indistinctly: “Put into circulation after first of March” (8) |
| 21 | Jelly shown in Goya’s picture of kitchen (5) |
| 22 | Compartment reserved for driver in hut (5) |
| 24 | I can’t dance and caper (5) |
| 25 | Continuously occupied public transport’s unknown (4) |
