| TWELFTH | Time flew backwards, the endless bit (7) |
| CANARD | Duck flew backwards into rat (6) |
| REVERSED | Moved backwards: - the car |
| USA | Forwards it's John McCain's country, backwards the home of his archives |
| IBIS | Endless bit is outside wader (4) |
| GOBI | Travel over endless bit of desert (4) |
| RESTRICT | Limit all others keeping endless bit of foolery (8) |
| VOLATILE | There it is, heartless, backward, the pick of society for the most part and highly strung (8) |
| YMA | Diva Sumac (and backward, the theme of this puzzle) |
| WELFARE | After a time, flew back to get benefits (7) |
| TWINGED | Felt a pain as time flew (7) |
| ELAPSED | Leads off with a short record, as time flew by (7) |
| TRANSIENT | Fugitive time flew, still without length (9) |
| INTRANSIT | Travelling home, time flew: it's strange! |
| SCREE | Sift endless bits of rock |
| THRILLS | The shivers, the endless runs and ailments (7) |
| ETERNAL | Endless retrospective, in the endless Catalan retelling (7) |
| THROMBI | Most of the endless row with doctor initially involves clots (7) |
| THEURGY | The endless impulse that accompanies the unknown - it's magic |
| SAMSARA | In Hinduism, the endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth (7) |
