| Clues down |
| 1 | Spies lose leader when holding traitor for nautical robbers (7) |
| 2 | Rebelling? How disgusting! (9) |
| 3 | Flower? Put back about fifty-one (5) |
| 4 | Truncheon carried during hours of darkness in place of entertainment (5,4) |
| 5 | Important characters in Canterbury and York provide a confection (5) |
| 6 | He declares his beliefs and is given a chair (9) |
| 7 | Foolish person swallows head of salmon, producing wind (5) |
| 8 | Tell a story: ‘Tear ran uncontrollably’ (7) |
| 14 | Telemetry fails to start after taking in unknown quantity, and then gets shaken up – very much so! (9) |
| 16 | Mechanic’s tool used to bribe professional killer (6,3) |
| 17 | I’m stuck in a country, showing work of Disney studios (9) |
| 18 | Label swallowed by rodent providing quantity of electromotive force (7) |
| 20 | Bold lad, eccentric (7) |
| 22 | Rips, and these are shed (5) |
| 23 | Put up in Dublin, endlessly confused (5) |
| 24 | Fish found in quantity of paper under book (5) |
