| INEXPERTLY | Next, I reply clumsily, clumsily (10) |
| RIPLEY | I believe him altogether, I reply (6) |
| PLAYITBYEAR | 'Proceed instinctively at bay', I reply, confused |
| ROMANIANS | I reply briefly to Italian nationals (9) |
| SIRNOSIR | G.I. reply |
| PLAYWITHFIRE | "Take a risk?", I reply - what if foolish? |
| PLEURISY | From US I reply, it's an indisposition (8) |
| ARIEL | "Even fairy," I reply. "Found in The Tempest" |
| INTERMIX | Mingle with fully naked entrepreneurs during next I.I.M. gathering (8) |
| ANXIETY | Next, I negotiated in style with going concern (7) |
| BESIDE | Next, I had bees buzzing around! |
| IMMEDIATE | Next I am with publishers, note (9) |
| EXPEDIENTLY | Next I yelped, suffering appropriately |
| POACHEDOUREMPLOYEES | "Next, I pivoted into breakfast restaurants, but competitors ..." |
| EXTINCT | Dead wrong. Next I was taken to court (7) |
| DRYMEASURES | "Next I endured the tedium of my Home Economics class, where the lecture was all about ___" |
| INEXACTLY | Next, I remodelled with clay - not true to form |
| POINSETTIA | Clumsily, I step on it, a popular seasonal plant (10) |
| RESPONDENT | One providing answers clumsily pretends to keep working (10) |
| RECOMPENSE | Screen poem clumsily - make good (10) |
