| ESTIMATION | Reckoning on time, as it turned out (10) |
| TENDED | Finished on time as it was inclined to do (6) |
| SATSUMA | Perched, reckoning on a fruit tree (7) |
| COUNTINGHOUSE | Business office reckoning on the Commons (8,5) |
| ENTHUSIAST | Buff for N. Shute as it turned out (10) |
| AARONBIRTH | Momentous event in baseball history, as it turned out? |
| INTHEEVENT | Coin the English pocketed, as it turned out |
| OSTENSIBLY | Office head in a rational fashion restricts time as it appears (10) |
| SATURATION | Ran out as it turned into a total soaking (10) |
| AGREEING | Pat started going out with Ted from Pentridge at the end of June -- they had a good start together as it turned out they were having the same opinions on things (8) |
| PAUL | The Walrus, as it turned out |
| AFINEMESS | 1986 Blake Edwards comedy flop (aptly named, as it turned out) |
| SWAN | Ugly duckling, as it turned out |
| ALISTAIRMACLEAN | British author? All-American, as it turned out |
| APPEARED | As it turned out, primate ate fruit then died |
| EXPELLED | Asked by mistress to leave as it turned out? (8) |
| UGLYDUCKLING | Signet reportedly incorrectly valued, as it turned out! (4,8) |
| ELEANOR | A queen - a real one, as it turned out (7) |
| STAINED | As it turned out, the back room was dirty (7) |
| VEEPS | Many future presidents, as it turned out |
