| TEACHABLE | Ready for instruction as two forms of a drink ran short |
| TRIESTE | Before drink runs short, samples port |
| AGINCOURT | After a drink, run the risk of fight with Henry? (9) |
| DIGLOSSIA | Existence of two forms of a language within a community, especially a high or formal form and a low colloquial one (9) |
| ELAPSED | Upstanding banker accepting drinks ran out (7) |
| ALLELE | One of two forms of a gene (in UNPARALLELED) |
| SQUASHLADDER | To drink, run for players' table |
| ENPRIMEUR | New to drink, run empire badly (2,7) |
| ISOTOPE | Each of two or more forms of a chemical element whose nuclei contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons (7) |
| EDITIONS | Particular forms of a published text, such as a book or newspaper (8) |
| DIDACTICISM | System of teaching with moral instruction as a motive (11) |
| MAKEBELIEVE | Spooner's cake mix instruction, as it happens, including a bit of extravagant fantasy |
| YONKS | 'Son of Kentucky' ran short for too long |
| GASTRIC | Long as trickle ran short of the stomach (7) |
| ETYMA | Early forms of a word (anagram of MATEY) |
| VARIANTS | Forms of a thing e.g. a word that differ in some respects (8) |
| TUITION | What is teaching or instruction, as of pupils (7) |
| PROGRAMMED | Provided with coded instructions, as for a robot (10) |
| HARTSHORN | Hospital ran short of ammonious substance (9) |
| IRIS | Pupil's surroundings ran short of Gaelic (4) |
