| DISTAFF | This side, the female line with fads fit to be adapted (7) |
| ADJUSTABLE | The public notice fair, competent and fit to be adapted (10) |
| TAD | Tiny word that rhymes with fad |
| COSIFANTUTTE | Tosca tune, fit to be adapted for a different opera |
| REGIMEN | Recommended programme to be adapted in merge (7) |
| EARBUDS | Bars due to be adapted for audio equipment (7) |
| CHARIOT | Chair to be adapted for a coach (7) |
| DENOTES | Signifies it needs to be adapted (7) |
| CONTAIN | "The Brain-is wider than the Sky- / For-put them side by side- / The one the other will ____" (Emily Dickinson) |
| OPPOSER | On the other side, the dopes set to work (7) |
| OPPOSED | On the other side, the dopes set to work (7) |
| LEEWARD | General drawback in the side the wind blows (7) |
| ASTRIDE | With a leg on each side, ... the horse |
| FORSYTH | Novelist whose books, including The Day of the Jackal, The Fourth Protocol and The Odessa File, have been adapted into films (7) |
| DISEASE | In disorganised side the main complaint (7) |
| THELADY | Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which begins: On either side the riverlie /Long fields of barley and of rye (3,4,2,7) |
| SOPRANI | It seems unlikely, but a prison can be adapted to house some singers (7) |
| LATTICE | Let Act 1 be adapted for the network (7) |
| FORSTER | Author whose novels A Room with a View, Howard's End and A Passage to India have been adapted into films (7) |
| COLLINS | Wilkie -; pioneer of detective fiction whose mystery novel The Woman in White has been adapted to stage and screen (7) |
