| GLOSS | Slogs wildly, but not without polish |
| LACKING | Without polish, without lead (7) |
| RAVENOUS | Being very hungry, talk wildly but with intelligence (8) |
| SLASH | Cut wildly, but with safety first, before the whip (5) |
| SPINDLY | Wildly but splendidly led out when lean and thin (7) |
| UNCOUTH | Boorish - without polish (7) |
| BLACKING | Bishop without polish (8) |
| LACQUER | In speaking, one without polish |
| TWODAYS | "Any healthy man can go without food for ___ ___ - but not without poetry": Charles Baudelaire (3,4) |
| TIMELAGS | Gets mail out, but not without delays (4-4) |
| COMPLICIT | Company member within the law -- but not without guilt? (9) |
| DATED | Old-fashioned, but not without romantic engagements |
| PEARL | She's a beauty, but not without grey matter (5) |
| SPICY | Erotic, perhaps, but not without taste |
| TIMELAG | Get mail, perhaps, but not without delay (4,3) |
| ENTRANCEFEE | It brings an admission, but not without cost (8,3) |
| TONGUEINCHEEK | Facetious but not without meaning |
| ELOPE | Go off, but not without a hitch? |
| APLAN | "But not without ___": Pope |
| MARK | A saint, but not without blemish |
