| WHENCE | Painful start after he replaces one from which position? |
| ADVOCATE | From "call to one's aid", a word for a defender or a supporter and one from which Spanish for "lawyer" derives (8) |
| WHERE | West in this position? In which position? (5) |
| RECORD | From "learn by heart, summon to mind, commit to memory", word for a chronicle, log or other account of facts in writing and one from which a fipple flute derives its name, in the sense "practise a tun |
| MOTHER | ____ church, one from which other churches have sprung (6) |
| UTERI | Truck on run, one from which all our deliveries come? |
| STANDIN | He replaces someone in street as well as home (5-2) |
| COWHERD | Starting with chicken, he replaces a minder of animals |
| LANGER | He replaces Flower as LSG'S head coach. (6) |
| PENSEE | A French word for "thought" and one from which a garden viola, with a "face" imagined as thinking or reflective, derives its name (6) |
| ARC | Word for a bow or a curve and one from which the name for a toxophilite, aka bowman/woman, derives (3) |
| SARTOR | Latin word for a botcher, patcher, snip or tailor and one from which the "tailor's muscle" derives its name (6) |
| TRACTION | Word for draught, drawing or pulling and one from which a farm vehicle derives its name; the grip of a tyre on a lane; or, the propulsion of vehicles (8) |
| HANGOVER | New cabinet minister replaces one in shock morning after (8) |
| DITHERY | Hesitant after written account replaces one article with another |
| CHOICE | Various ones from which to pick the flower |
| CROWDPLEASER | Outlandish word replaces one that has mass appeal (5-7) |
| FUMANCHU | 'Omo sapiens replaces one in cape, an oriental fiend (2,6) |
| OPERATE | Queen replaces one in drug work (7) |
| AVOCATION | Usual job, where officer commanding replaces one in flying (9) |
