| ADAMANDEVE | Turns up, first lady is linked to genetic material on bananas and primarily on apples produced by the gardeners (4,3,3) |
| AND | Accompanied by genetic material, on reflection |
| DOTAGE | Function, thanks to genetic engineering, in second childhood (6) |
| MUTANT | Subject to genetic change |
| COOL | Slang word for good introduced in black America in the Thirties; all teenagers wanted to be it by th |
| COXCOMB | Apple produced by company doctor for a conceited fellow (7) |
| GOLDENDELICIOUS | Variety of apple produced by cool guides led in unexpectedly (6,9) |
| FISHBURNE | This actor was only fourteen years old when he won a role in Apocalypse Now - he was seventeen by th |
| BRIGHTLY | Cleverly reconstructed by th'girl (8) |
| KINGSCROSS | Family angry about limitations to genetics? It's a point of departure (5,5) |
| MENDELISM | Theory that led to genetics |
| WAAF | Women joined the men, though not as pilots, in this branch of the British flying arm, approved by th |
| DAHLIA | Turns up first class heroin hidden by young man in Mexican plant (6) |
| FALLINLOVE | Hit by Cupid's arrow? Go downhill to live on bananas! (4,2,4) |
| EVADE | The First Lady is given short notice and gets to dodge it (5) |
| CHILLI | The foreign First Lady is taken in by Greek character, a hot one (6) |
| DETECTIVE | For example, Poirot and I have to turn up first (9) |
| EVE | On the verge of locking up First Lady? (3) |
| EVOKE | Call up first lady to get outside approval (5) |
| SCORIA | Turns up first class mythological birds - it's a release for Etna (6) |
