| REQUISITION | Formal demand is quiet, or in a different setting (11) |
| MOUNTAIN | It may be high, like a horse in a different setting (8) |
| DRESSINGROOM | Gets ready here to film alternate Rodgers numbers, shortly, in a different setting |
| DEREQUISITIONED | Formal demand in the act that it should be returned to civilian use (15) |
| REQUISITIONS | Formal demands |
| SAPPHIRE | Perhaps one requires a different setting for a gemstone |
| SLEEPY | Relating to "somnus", a word for drowsy or somnolent; inducing slumber; non-buzzing, quiet or sequestered, as in a little town/village; or, overripe and unjuicy, as in a pear (6) |
| BANDAGE | Cover wound and beg a different setting for it (7) |
| ONTHEAIR | Live in hate or in a different way? (2,3,3) |
| ONAIR | Sign on a TV studio door or in a different place? (2,3) |
| CORN | Something on an ear ... or, in a different sense, a foot |
| HIGHANDMIGHTY | Haughty, or in a different sense, like the top words in 3-, 9-, 23and 28- |
| NURSERYRHYMES | Mother Goose offerings, or in a different sense, this puzzle's title |
| RESTATED | Said again or in a different way |
| RESTATE | Say again, or in a different way |
| ENCORES | The performances as before, or in a different scene (7) |
| LIT | Buzzing ... or, in a different sense, buzzed |
| VAGARIOUS | Rambling to find silver in different setting (9) |
| ANISEED | A demand is seen in this aromatic flavour (7) |
| CALMLY | In a quiet or composed way (6) |
