| THESAMEOLDSTORY | Host's moderately different in an often repeated event (3,4,3,5) |
| EXOTIC | Different in an alluring way |
| MANTRA | An often-repeated word, formula or phrase, often used in meditation (6) |
| HOLEINONE | Inspiration for an often-repeated golf story |
| BELLYFLOP | An ungainly dive distinguished by one's breadbasket, corporation, paunch or venter slapping the water's surface, resulting in an often painful spectacle of water displacement and embarrassment (5,4) |
| PLUMS | Fruit in an often-parodied William Carlos Williams poem |
| INITIATION | The ritual of admitting a new member into a society or group in an often secret ceremony of the same name; or, any act of beginning (10) |
| RECURRENCE | Repeated event |
| CYCLE | Series of repeated events (5) |
| GIGANTIC | Jumbo seen in show with an act that's often repeated (8) |
| PRESERVE | An often homemade mixture such as marmalade, lemon curd, stem ginger in syrup, mint/rose jelly or strawberry conserve, traditionally stored in jars (8) |
| JAM | An often homemade food prepared from seasonal gluts of fruit simmered in sugar in a preserving pan, traditionally applied to scones, bread or Victoria sandwiches (3) |
| HAZEL | Associated with a species of dormouse, an often coppiced tree with filberts represented in heraldic avellane crosses and with catkins or lamb's-tails in spring; or, the greenish-brownish colour of sai |
| MONDEGREEN | Word, coined by writer Sylvia Wright in 1954 after misinterpreting a line in The Bonny Earl of Murray, for an often humorous or nonsensical phrase or "eggcorn" resulting from mishearing the lyrics of |
| GROTTO | An often seashell-decorated mock cave in a landscaped garden (6) |
| WOULDYOURATHER | Lead-in to an often terrible choice |
| SUGABABES | Girl group formed in 1998, with an often-shifting line-up (9) |
| EN | An often-used abbr. for English in coding (2) |
| LASSA | Village in Nigeria after which an often fatal viral disease is named (5) |
| RITUAL | Working group in retreat held up? It's often repeated (6) |
