| THYSELF | Once you start to yawn, ebbing body temperature contains it (7) |
| ONEWAYSTREET | There's no going back once you start to travel along it |
| ITSASLIPPERYSLOPE | "Once you start you can't stop" |
| RELAPSE | Once you recuperate, you must decline to do this (7) |
| SPINACH | Popeye's tip: his can supply contains it? (7) |
| TRAPEZE | It's an occupation with its ups and downs, once you get the hang of it (7) |
| STOMACH | Where food goes once you eat it (7) |
| QUITESO | Spanish cheese contains it - exactly! (5,2) |
| BURRITO | Food that's Mexican - or Polish, on reflection - contains it |
| INITIAL | "Essential to contain it" I alleged at the beginning (7) |
| COMBATS | Fights the rioting mob and acts frenziedly to contain it (7) |
| AAMILNE | Author who wrote "Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them" |
| POLITIC | Wise using force mostly to contain it |
| IMITATE | Copy one, chum, must contain it (7) |
| OUTPOST | Frontier station intray won't contain it |
| APATHY | Start to yawn, following one way to show lack of interest (6) |
| ITCHY | Restless in Berlin, I start to yawn, nursing temperature |
| INVITE | A vine contains it - ask me nicely and I'll show it to you (6) |
| SNAZZY | Smart answer picked up, then sleepy characters start to yawn (6) |
| ELEGY | The Spanish, for example, start to yawn at poem (5) |
