Solutions to Across clues give the partnership, with the clued word in italics, followed by an explanation, and the category or categories into which the answer fell.
| 1 | GOAT and COMPASSES - 2 meanings of 'goat'. Pub Name |
| 6 | DAPHNIS and CHLOE - Daphn(e) = laurel, is. Mythical characters, musical work. |
| 9 | SALT and VINEGAR - 2 meanings. Food and drink flavour. |
| 10 | HENGIST and HORSA - steed = horse. Mythical characters - apologies for the fact that not all sources refer to them as giants. |
| 11 | ROUGH and READY - part of 'thorough'. Phrase |
| 12 | VLADIMIR and ESTRAGON - the two tramps in Waiting for Godot, which had been done recently at the National Theatre when the puzzle appeared. V=5, then DIM inside LAIR. Theatrical characters |
| 15 | HIGHBURY and ISLINGTON - theatrical meaning of 'angel'. London location. |
| 17 | KNUR and SPELL - reversal of end of 'tree-trunk'. Game. |
| 20 | ROYAL and ANCIENT - ANC, i.e., NT. Sporting Club |
| 21 | TROILUS and CRESSIDA. anagram of 'rust' and 'oil'. Theatrical characters, theatrical work. |
| 23 | ELEPHANT and CASTLE - Cast iron, Le. Pub Name, London location. |
| 25 | HENGIST and HORSA. Eng. inside Hist. Mythical characters & the partnership which appears in full. |
| 27 | TRISTAN and ISOLDE - I, sold, E. Mythical characters, Musical work. |
| 29 | DANDELION and BURDOCK. Anagram of 'Donne laid'. Food and drink flavour. |
| 30 | DEATH and THE MAIDEN - ide (fish) inside 'the man'. Musical work. |
| 31 | PELLEAS and MELISANDE - Elle inside 'pas'. Mythical and theatrical characters, musical/theatrical work. |
| 1 | CAVORT - 'Cav and Pag' is short for the double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci, and an ort is a food scrap. | |
| 2 | MENDACITY - Mend a city. | |
| 3 | ANGRY - G.R. inside 'any'. | |
| 4 | SPRY - SPY outside R. | |
| 5 | SOH - S = square, O = old, H=Henry | |
| 6 | CONTRASTS - anagram | |
| 7 | LYING - 2 meanings | |
| 8 | ENTANGLE - anagram of angel, ten. | |
| 13 | STYLES - 2 meanings | |
| 14 | TUSCAN - Sca in 'tun' | |
| 16 | HALF HITCH - LF (low frequency),H in 'aitch' after H. | |
| 18 | EIDERDOWN - anagram of 'wired node' | |
| 19 | ORIENTED - nothing in Arabic (numerals) = 0, & in French = RIEN, 50s lout = Ted. | |
| 22 | TACKLE, as in 'block and tackle' or 'rugby tackle'. | |
| 25 | HORUS - anagram of SOH and Ur. | |
| 26 | ABEL - A bel, the first three people being Adam, Eve, Cain | |
| 28 | NIM - 2 meanings |