| TAIWAN | Island that didn't have a domestic COVID-19 outbreak until May, 2021 |
| ASIA | Where the COVID-19 outbreak started |
| MALT | Mediterranean island that didn't finish the Scotch |
| SOLE | Fish that didn't have a partner in the Ark? (4) |
| IPAD | Tablet that didn't have a camera in its first generation |
| SPAIN | Country that somehow didn't have a premier class GP winner until 1992. (5) |
| JERICHO | Old city that didn't have soundproof walls! (Josh. 6:5) (7) |
| INCAEMPIRE | Bygone state that didn't have the wheel, written language, iron, or steel |
| STOOD | Was a candidate, but didn't have a seat (5) |
| POE | Pope didn't have a quiet second, being a writer (3) |
| RATTLED | Disturbed that Mouse Story didn't have a decent opening (7) |
| UNCULTURED | A French religious group reaching ancient city with Edward didn't have a discriminating taste (10) |
| OFHISLIFE | Groucho Marx as S. Quentin Quale in Go West said, "I'd have thrashed him to within an inch ..., but I didn't have a tape measure" (2,3,4) |
| TAPE | Groucho Marx as S. Quentin Quale in Go West said, "I'd have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn't have a ... measure" |
| HADNOIDEA | Didn't have a clue. Was incapable of creative thought (3,2,4) |
| DENY | Say you didn't have a home the year after (4) |
| RODEO | Didn't have a mount in the cowboy show? (5) |
| SHELTER | She later didn't have a place in which to hide |
| LOSS | Behold the secret police. They didn't have a win (4) |
| MIMED | Acted, though one didn't have a speaking part (5) |
