| WEARIEST | As it were (anag) (8) |
| EWER | Were (anag) (4) |
| ESTIMATE | As I see it, times have changed and have gone down as it were (8) |
| SELECTED | Chosen as the editor's elect as it were (8) |
| SWEATIER | It's more damp - being changeable, as it were (8) |
| OXBRIDGE | Steerforth for one, as it were, in academia (8) |
| LINESMAN | Sports official is a poet, as it were (8) |
| ENTREATS | Beseeches one to enter the Apple Isle, as it were (8) |
| CURTAILS | Cuts short a worthless dog's tail as it were (8) |
| TONEDEAF | Lacking an ear, as it were |
| FRAGMENT | Piece hacks, as it were, included in newspaper |
| BASTILLE | Fortress illuminated, as it were, in Swiss city |
| TOOLSHED | Overcast, as it were, around large outbuilding |
| CHAMBERY | Like a room, as it were, somewhere in France |
| RUNABOUT | Railwaymen, as it were, in nippy car |
| LADYLIKE | Genteel song about duke, as it were |
| LUCKYHIT | A stroke of fortune as it were (5,3) |
| WELLTODO | Loaded, as it were |
| RENTFREE | On the house, as it were: Hyph. |
| PARTAKES | Mainly takes part, as it were |
