| MIGRATED | Aircraft designers, highly thought of, went abroad (8) |
| TESTFLIGHT | A trying time for aircraft designers |
| MIGRATION | Aircraft designers apportion movement from one part to another (9) |
| MIG | Soviet aircraft designers (abbr) (3) |
| ESTEEMED | Plaice finally cooked, say, and highly thought of (8) |
| MOUNTAIN | Horse article I included is highly thought of (8) |
| REGARDED | Seen to be highly thought of (8) |
| WHOOSHED | Whatever person operator got rid of went like a rocket (8) |
| EMIGRANT | Time Gran went abroad to settle (8) |
| ILYUSHIN | Sergei, Soviet aircraft designer of the jet airliner Il-62 (8) |
| OFTHEFEW | 1942 biopic starring Leslie Howard as aircraft designer R J Mitchell (3,5,2,3,3) (see 3D) |
| THEFIRST | 1942 biopic starring Leslie Howard as aircraft designer R J Mitchell (3,5,2,3,3) (see 13D) |
| REITERATED | Repeated ceremony outside front of embassy highly thought of (10) |
| COINOPERATED | Vending machines are popular in store and highly thought-of on line? (4-8) |
| TREASURED | Firm feeding tramp's highly thought of (9) |
| IDEALS | Reformed ladies highly thought of (6) |
| GENERATED | Produced singin' (and dancin') star highly thought of (9) |
| OVERRATED | Finished trade off, it's too highly thought of (9) |
| PROSTRATED | Professional and devout person, highly thought of, completely overcome |
| PRIED | Was inquisitive but highly thought of without final character (5) |
