| SALADDRESSING | Saucy thing beginning to strip - a boy doing otherwise? |
| TALISMAN | Lucky thing beginning to train wild animals (8) |
| HOPS | Trips to buy things beginning to end (4) |
| TROWELS | Drying things beginning to rust included tools |
| TAPIR | Got a piranha to strip a shy nocturnal one (5) |
| PLUCK | To strip a bird of its feathers (5) |
| UNRIG | To strip a vessel of standing and running rigging (5) |
| LAG | Word for a stave of a barrel; a lath or strip; a wooden lining; a covering for a boiler/pipe; a delay; or, a convict (3) |
| THONG | A strap or a strip; a lash of a whip; a loop of a riding crop; or, a flimsy sandal, also called a flip-flop (5) |
| RUNWAY | An air/landing strip; a catwalk; a log chute; a trail; a stretch of sprint track before a jump or a throw; or, a wild animal's beaten or habitual path (6) |
| TAB | A small flap or strip; a loop for drawing a stage curtain; the drape itself; a cigarette; an insignia on a staff officer's collar; an Oxonian's name for a Cambridge student; or, in the US, a restauran |
| SUNDRESS | Beginning to strip, strip off frock (8) |
| SALADCREAM | Something funny about a boy -- saucy thing (5,5) |
| SHEARER | Stripper beginning to strip before judge? |
| IDEAL | Dancing ladies beginning to strip off - this couldn't be better (5) |
| DISROBE | Beginning to strip, rip off long clothes? |
| IBEGYOURPARDON | A purer boy doing wrong offers an apology (1,3,4,6) |
| CAPER | Saucy thing to cut (5) |
| SUCKERPUNCH | Unexpected blow, one doing otherwise with drink |
| INGOT | Bar from doing otherwise (5) |
