| CALAMINE | Mineral and a resin found going back to pit (8) |
| ALMANAC | A resin found round island yearbook (7) |
| REEXAMINE | Troops take chopper back to pit and continue the probe |
| IZMIR | Pilgrim zillionth to be found going back into Turkish city (5) |
| LAH | English note found going back through autograph album |
| AMICABLE | Clever to take in mineral and cordial (8) |
| CALAMARI | I shove a resin back in dish (8) |
| JAMBOREE | Blockage worker found going round alternative rally (8) |
| COMPLETE | The whole fifty enter, to pit themselves against (8) |
| ISOTONIC | ____ drinks are used to replace minerals and salt lost by sweating |
| CALABASH | Making a resin rise, hit tree |
| PESTILENCE | In 2.3, in a soliloquy, Iago lays out his plot to pit Othello against Cassio: "for while this honest fool Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes, And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor, I'll pour |
| IRISHISMS | National idioms a woman found going over a chap's manuscript |
| RETIRED | Went to pit and changed to slicks, as told over the radio? (7) |
| ROOT | Mineral- and water-absorbing subterranean radix of a plant; or, in morphology, the core of a word (4) |
| RESTORE | Take a pause while working with mineral, and let it return to original state, perhaps |
| AFRO | Found going around in posterior facial vein - it comes as a shock giving one a big head (4) |
| ELEMI | Tree native to the Philippines yielding a resin used as a herbal medicine |
| BORE | Black mineral and how to get it? (4) |
| HULK | Giant found going in and out of Hudson River walk (4) |
