| BACKWARD | In a reversing direction (8) |
| HARDROE | First to dinner in school, reversing direction for a bit of fish |
| CLOCKWATCHER | Unenthusiastic worker, one nabbing philosopher reversing direction (12) |
| TURNING | Act of changing or reversing direction (7) |
| ABDUL | Lord in court cut off by a reversing man |
| SUBWOOFER | Equipment that allows you to hear a dog chasing a reversing vehicle (9) |
| BEEP | Sound made by a reversing truck |
| MERC | Best to leave a reversing car (4) |
| BACKPEDAL | Go back on what you said, like a reversing cyclist? (4,5) |
| POLARISE | Split opinion in reversing a cut to make an increase (8) |
| KILBRIDE | Inner Hebridean after reversing, like going round a street in 21Ac 26Dn (4,8) |
| KIELBASA | Son practised reversing in car that's a banger (8) |
| TERTIARY | Man negotiates road junction, reversing in third! (8) |
| TOGETHER | Try reversing in, secure, side by side (8) |
| ARTISTIC | Creative model reversing in truck (8) |
| ABORTING | Breaking down, reversing it in Bangor resort (8) |
| ARACHNID | A vehicle reversing around Norway concealed spider perhaps (8) |
| CULDESAC | Shut in a box, short of luck, reversing the one way out of it (3-2-3) |
| BLACKART | Left in taxi reversing over racing vehicle - it's a sinister practice (5,3) |
| NOSTROMO | Alien craft reversing round satellite circling sun, out of a novel (8) |