| RESPONDED | Answered that it needs drop to restore it (9) |
| REINSTATE | Net is gone, cutting cost to restore it (9) |
| DESTROYS | It ruins it, so Ed's to try to restore it (8) |
| PARACHUTE | Trooper to wound, we hear, and drop to the ground (9) |
| YOSEMITE | Bruce Babbitt wants to restore it |
| CRYONICS | What is the practice of deep-freezing a human corpse, hoping to restore it later? (8) |
| LIKEASHOT | Fancy a drop to drink straightaway? |
| SPEEDBOAT | What may be ending in drop to seabed after accident? |
| ENERVATED | Honoured but then leader drops to fifth position, tired ... (9) |
| DRIPDRY | With small amount of liquid it's plain that it needs no ironing |
| DENOTES | Indicates that it needs to be changed (7) |
| RETORTED | Answered that it's wrong to have a grass border |
| RAMP | Slope is such that it needs some crampons (4) |
| RECONSTITUTE | Restore IT to US centre ransacked |
| REVIVIFY | If very upset about four, restore it to life (8) |
| REPLIED | Answered that agent wasn't honest (7) |
| PERMYLASTEMAIL | "I've already answered that," in office-speak |
| OUTHOUSE | It is a long drop to get to it? (8) |
| HUMBUG | A hoax, sham or trick; an imposter; a lump of toffee; a black-and-white peppermint drop to which a stripy wild boarlet is likened; or, nonsense, such as Christmas, according to Dickens's curmudgeon ca |
| NOR | "... ___ any drop to drink" (Coleridge) |
