| DEPRESSING | Coming into line on an empty drive can be disappointing (10) |
| DESCRIBE | Set out on an empty drive by a writer (8) |
| TANTALISING | Making one's mouth water can be disappointing |
| ADDRESSING | Speaking, at short notice, coming into line (10) |
| YOURADHERE | Words on an empty billboard, and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| AGGRADE | Cut down to size in an empty drive on the level (7) |
| DELIBERATION | On reflection, an empty drive led to one being set free (12) |
| DESOLATE | Reached an empty drive so late, it was quite bleak (8) |
| DESIGN | Contrive to cross over an empty drive, at first (6) |
| NEAP | In an empty drive, record low level, in the main (4) |
| DEMIT | Send one down from an empty drive at a US institute (5) |
| DEPARTS | From an empty drive, roles are arranged, so leaves the scene (7) |
| DRESSER | Surgeon's assistant, one coming into line? |
| LEONINE | Being beastly, takes a long time coming into line (7) |
| DWINDLE | Decline to turn left into empty drive |
| SILT | Sediment is back on an empty lot |
| UNDERFED | Blunder Federer makes on an empty stomach (8) |
| RESPONSE | In reply, was about to get odds on an empty store (8) |
| AMPHIBIAN | Frog found on an empty path in the wilds of Namibia (9) |
| ABOLISH | Blot out treatment for a boil on an empty stomach (7) |
