| TAKEABACKSEAT | Startle, prepared to keep ace and not lead |
| GREATCOATS | Struggling actors get to keep ace clothes (10) |
| HELICOPTER | Hitler and Luftwaffe finally prepared to keep officer in aircraft |
| CLEMENT | Carbon and silicon, for example, though not lead, are not heavy |
| SOLDIERON | Old senior's prepared to keep going |
| LONGTIME | (Of food) prepared to keep for a while (4-4) |
| SEGMENT | Part of a circle prepared to keep FBI agents (7) |
| EMPTYSEAT | Met types prepared to keep a place for latecomer (5,4) |
| MACON | Prepared to keep dry wine (5) |
| ROSETTES | As favours, prepared to keep in store, packaged |
| PHOTOED | Shot of dope prepared to keep warm (7) |
| ARTISTRY | Theatre role (not lead) is attempt to show skill (8) |
| VANADIUM | Lead - a radioactive element? Not lead, it's a metallic element (8) |
| DEADLETTER | One receiving rent late at first? ItOll not lead to prosecution |
| EQUINOX | Feature of spring, something shiny (not lead) and neat |
| AGES | Iron and bronze, but not lead, periods |
| ETAL | And others may be copper but not lead (2,2) |
| DEIGN | Condescend to let daughter be queen but not lead (5) |
| AUTOMOBILE | Invention a British parliamentarian claimed in 1903 would not lead to a decline in riding horses |
| NONFATAL | Pushed corgi out of conflagration... injured... will not lead to death (3-5) |
