| CARBUNCLE | Site of no architectural merit from around 21 BC |
| TARA | Fictional house "built according to no architectural plan whatever" |
| ONES | Notes that are passed around 21 months |
| MIDSUMMER | Solstice around 21 June (9) |
| RINGBARKING | Girdling, or the complete removal of a strip of bark from around the entire circumference of a tree branch or trunk (as used in forestry) (4-7) |
| IVAN | Name of a number of grand princes of Moscow, the first reigning from around 1328- 40 (4) |
| RIGVEDA | Oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism, composed in Sanskrit from around 1500 BC (3-4) |
| SILENCE | Quiet from around the end of April/4th of June (7) |
| LSE | University of London college attracting students of economics from around the world (1,1,1) |
| HOTAIRBALLOON | Henry from around Rialto left out glass of brandy for those in inflated form of transport (3,3,7) |
| EZRA | Old Testament book presenting the history of the Jews from around 538 to c440 BC (4) |
| PLUVIOSE | Fifth month of the French revolutionary calendar (1793- 1805) running from around 20 January to February 18; from Latin, ' rainy' (8) |
| SHANG | Earliest Chinese dynasty of which written records exist, ruling from around the 16th to 11th centuries BC (5) |
| APHESIS | Linguistic term for the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word, as in round from around (7) |
| IRONAGE | Period of human development which, in Britain, lasted from around 800 BC to 100 AD (4,3) |
| NOURISH | Feed half the nougat to most of them from around here (7) |
| GRAN | Relative from around Dagenham area originally, leaving Spanish city (ninth of theme) (4) |
| SOLIDS | Foods fed to babies from around the age of four months (6) |
| STORM | Charge banks of supporters from around The Hill (5) |
| BASIL | Remove water from around bottom of gas plant (5) |
