| DREGS | Doctor, for example, beginning to sift bottom of drink? (5) |
| SQUINT | Look askance, beginning to sift Jaws' last meal |
| NESTEGG | Money saved in a secluded place, for example, beginning to grow (4,3) |
| BEGS | Bachelor, for example, beginning to shun requests |
| CITY | Urban area: a US example beginning to mature out of disaster |
| SIDETRACKS | Follows Dublin, for example, beginning with draws away (10) |
| GRIDDLE | Third of sugar’s to sift on surface for baking |
| SIEVE | Is up to Woman to sift with it (5) |
| FBILAB | Place to sift crime evidence, for short |
| RIDDLE | One offering cryptic clues to sift (6) |
| RESCIND | Cancel the order to sift the cinders (7) |
| SEMINAR | To sift the remains can be something instructive (7) |
| ASH | What arson investigators might have to sift through |
| DREDGE | To sift flour, sugar over (6) |
| DISCERN | See how to sift cinders (7) |
| DREG | End of doctor, for example |
| BLOWN | Whistle should be carried by doctor for example |
| BADGERLEGGED | Bald doctor, for example, trebled, is unevenly limbed (12) |
| LOCUM | Stand-in doctor, for example (5) |
| MEDIC | Doctor, for example (5) |
