| TURNTHECORNER | Go round the bend but start to improve |
| EARN | Get close, but start to move back |
| NOW | ...but starts to notice others walking at the present time (3) |
| EDGE | Border likes to sledge but starts to lose (4) |
| EBB | Energy brilliant, but starts to decline |
| SERIOUS | Rose is staggering round the bend, but sober |
| HUE | He's round the bend, but is colourful! (3) |
| TURNACORNER | Start to improve, when rancour rent the disposition (4,1,6) |
| CORNERSTONE | Go round the bend, set on change vital to construction (6,5) |
| CHAUFFEUR | Driver made her a cuff to go round the bend (9) |
| IAMWOMAN | 1972 hit with the lyric "You can bend but never break me" |
| GETGOOD | Start to improve, as a movie plot |
| ASSISTANCE | Help idiot start to improve posture (10) |
| ARTIST | I start to improve as a model employer (6) |
| TAKEATURNFORTHEBETTER | START TO IMPROVE (4,1,4,3,3,6) |
| ROUND | Part song in which multiple voices sing the same tune at the same pitch but start at different times (5) |
| GETTOGETHERS | Follow street and go round the bend to keep hospital engagements (3-9) |
| PRY | "I don't mean to ___, but ..." (start of a personal question) |
| STARVE | All but start of harvest failed, so go without food (6) |
| TURN | Go round the bend? |
