| ULTIMO | In, or of, the previous month (6) |
| ULT | Of the previous month: abbr. |
| TUMULT | Upheaval of stomach in the previous month (6) |
| RESULT | Before the previous month, engineers outcome (6) |
| DITTO | Word which can be represented by a symbol, and can mean 'in or of the month already named', or 'in the same way, similarly' (5) |
| ANANAS | Fruits of the previous clue missing their tops - or the pineapple genus! (6) |
| INST | In or of the present month. |
| FORMER | Moulder of the previous one (6) |
| HEROIC | Descriptive of Leander's nightly swims, or of the lady-in-waiting? (6) |
| PEBBLE | A smooth rock of granite, flint, schist, chert, lime/sandstone or of the green marble of a St Columba's Bay "mermaid's tear" (6) |
| PIRATE | A buccaneer of the high seas or of the information superhighway (6) |
| STUART | Member of royal family or of the upper classes in origin |
| OVULAR | Being or of the nature of an ovule (6) |
| AGRION | Genus name, roughly akin to "wild one" or "of the open fields", of a metallic green damselfly, archaically referred to as a demoiselle (6) |
| OREGON | 'Beaver State' of the north-western US, bordering Washington, Idaho, California and Nevada (6) |
| MAY | Month that brings flowers after the previous month's showers |
| ADULT | Notice how the previous month matured? (5) |
| MAGIC | The supposed art of influencing the course of events by the occult control of nature or of the spirits |
| ADMIRALTY | Winston Churchill was returned to his post as First Lord Of The ... on September 4, 1939, a post he held at the outbreak of the previous war |
| DOMINOEFFECT | Each event being a consequence of the previous one (6,6) |
