| MEMORY | Ability to retain knowledge |
| LEGEND | Hero was first to retain knowledge |
| REMEMBER | Retain knowledge about one of the team |
| CONCENTRATION | Ability to retain focus and application (13) |
| MNEME | Ability to retain Parisian's missus, holding her in, upset |
| CLAN | Group of people with ability to retain original language (4) |
| ITINERANT | Manage to retain tin to give to a travelling salesman (9) |
| TERRAIN | Manage to retain right to some land (7) |
| STET | Instruction to printer to retain deleted material |
| REPEAL | Refuse to retain Article, leading to abrogation (6) |
| KEEPITORSHOVEIT | Home game version of stud in which players have a choice on whether to retain or pass to the left ea |
| BARBARYAPE | According to legend, its continued presence on Gibraltar allows the British to retain control thereo |
| HAVEASKINFUL | One needs to be well-oiled to retain a bodyguard with peculiar flu (4,1,7) |
| ALIENIST | A good man to defend right to retain one's psychiatrist |
| COLOUR | Oddly elect to retain right to hold property for customers (9) |
| CLIENTELE | Oddly elect to retain right to hold property for customers (9) |
| IMITABLE | I have the power to retain the item liable to be taken off |
| ICECAP | International skating star covering cold area? (6)WASTWOSTARS9 & 5Dn. To retain a personal lawyer is to be discreet (2,4,4,3,7) |
| BELTS | Strips or leather or other materials worn around the waist or across the chest to retain or support clothes or to carry a weapon |
| UXORIOUS | Superior Sioux struggled to retain gold dedicated to wife (8) |
