| ASSOCIATEDPRESS | Advertiser perhaps starts to expand into media organisation |
| LANDOWNER | Prince Charles, perhaps, starts to lecture architects - numbingly dispiriting experience (9) |
| DOGMATIC | Opinionated setter, perhaps, starts to moan about themes in crosswords (8) |
| ENGINE | Mallard, perhaps, starts to eat nuts and edges round trap |
| RECLINING | In a chair, perhaps starts to repair embroidered cape sleeve |
| REGISTRAR | Doctor from Bognor perhaps starts to treat rheum after rhinoplasty (9) |
| APPOINT | Name author perhaps starts to use (7) |
| SPIRITEDLY | Editor on whisky, perhaps, starts to love you with passion (10) |
| DOGGED | Boxer, perhaps, starts to get energetic and distinctly tenacious (6) |
| BIGCAT | Lion, perhaps, starts to breed in general captivity and thrive (3,3) |
| HAT | Bowler, perhaps, starts to hit another tailender (3) |
| CODE | Morse perhaps starts to criticise other detectives' evidence (4) |
| ASSEGAI | Nana perhaps starts to admire immense weapon |
| ANTICS | Soldier, perhaps, starts to inhale Caesar salad and capers (6) |
| PLANETREE | Mercury, perhaps, starts to rise, enervating and exhausting one seen on the streets of London? (5,4) |
| CRABAPPLE | Hermit, perhaps, starts to act peculiarly with endless request for fruit (4,5) |
| PROEM | In Wordsworth's words, perhaps, start to recite The Prelude |
| LEGALTENDER | In stick-up at a bank, perhaps, start to take money |
| TERRIER | Retire perhaps, start to read, and get a dog! (7) |
| CREED | Belief does, perhaps, start to come back (5) |
