| LETTERING | Left making improvements, removing black text |
| ENHANCING | Change inn again, making improvements (9) |
| LEGPULLER | Joker left, making gull peer around (3-6) |
| PHOTOSTAT | Copy that stoop, making improvement (9) |
| EMENDING | Removing errors and making improvements (8) |
| LEACHED | Cleared with water and whitened, removing black |
| INJECTS | Doses old printers with colour, removing black at last |
| YTTRIUM | Removing black earth from this element yields a silvery metal (7) |
| DEADHEAT | Husband comes in exhausted, removing black tie (4,4) |
| ADIEU | Twenty-seven states having passed bill, one left, making this? |
| SQUELCHY | Awfully shy clique I left, making a sucking sound (8) |
| BABEL | Stunning woman left making confused sound |
| AMENDING | Time to finish making improvements ... (8) |
| DECORATING | Assessing style before making improvements (10) |
| AMENDER | One making improvements has last word with backward communist (7) |
| ILLCONSIDERED | I will study team on the left, making the wrong choice? (3-10) |
| ILLUSION | Illinois one left, making u-turn that wasn't really there (8) |
| BETTERMENT | Punter probably leads people to start making improvement |
| DIRECTORY | List minister of religion as being into home improvements? (9) |
| GETBETTER | Hire a gambler to try to make improvements (3,6) |
