| BEEFWELLINGTON | Feeling belt now after digesting meat dish (4,10) |
| SILENCE | No talking after digesting European article (7) |
| REAPPEAR | Turn up again after digesting a university course |
| EMBITTER | I'm better after digesting poison (8) |
| TOWN | Turn now after first testing a quite small city |
| UPSETTING | What I am doing now after getting high is worrying (9) |
| BACKDOWN | Support Germany now after moving to retreat? (4,4) |
| INTHEKNOW | The kind almost now after reform privy to information (2,3,4) |
| RELIT | Back now after going out? |
| SWOLLEN | Sell now after adjustment indicating effect of inflation? |
| DROWN | Overwhelm doctor now after surgery (5) |
| TIEDOWN | Restrict diet now after treatment (3,4) |
| BUCKLEDOWN | Tackle a task determinedly, bent now after exercise (6,4) |
| CAREWORN | Anxious racer now after a crash (8) |
| OWNUP | Confess now after stirring out of bed (3,2) |
| MINNOW | Now, after 30 seconds, there's small fish (6) |
| DAWNON | Become obvious suddenly to Dan now after unravelling (4,2) |
| SLATTERNLINESS | Slovenly behaviour of sons digesting recent new poetry |
| CONVERSATIONAL | Chatty fellow countryman digesting a lot of poetry |
| BARROW | Historically within the Furness district of Lancashire, now, after Carlisle, the second largest town in Cumbria; in the late 19th century, the town's steelworks was the world's largest (6) |
