| ULTIMO | Term used in formal correspondence to refer to the previous month (6) |
| TUMULT | Upheaval of stomach in the previous month (6) |
| RESULT | Before the previous month, engineers outcome (6) |
| MATURE | In essence first character goes back to the previous season (6) |
| SPRING | Name, derived from an Old English word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| THRUST | A fundamental concept in physics used to refer to the propulsive force of a jet or rocket engine; or, a sudden attacking lunge in fencing (6) |
| DORSAY | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French foreign office (6) |
| HEREOF | Word used in formal documents meaning "concerning this" (6) |
| SALVER | A tray, typically of silver and used in formal circumstances (6) |
| ATEMPO | "Return to the previous speed," in musical directions |
| CLOSER | Joy Division put a hundred before answer to the previous clue (6) |
| SYMBOL | Word for an emblem or token, originally used in English to refer to the Apostles' Creed (6) |
| INCAVO | Italian word used in art to refer to the part of an intagliated gem or stone that is "hollowed" out, like a grotto (6) |
| BOOZER | Slang word that Danny Dyer might use to refer to the Queen Vic in EastEnders (6) |
| NUTRIA | Spanish word for an otter, which is used to refer to the orange-toothed coypu whose genus, Myocastor, means "mouse beaver" or, its fur (6) |
| INSTANT | In formal correspondence, of the present month |
| EPISTLE | I slept poorly under direction in formal correspondence (7) |
| MAY | Month that brings flowers after the previous month's showers |
| HOI | Sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the upper classes, the term ... polloi, derived from Greek, means 'the masses' or 'the common people |
| TOILE | French word for "cloth", used to refer to the plain fabric used to create the pattern or muslin for a couture or made-to-measure garment (5) |
