| MONSTERA | Start of the week, time by the way to build plant |
| GUARDAGAINST | Take precautions, use safety device for second time by the way (5,7) |
| FIGHTAGAINST | Oppose action another time, by the way (5,7) |
| TREATMENT | Nature does it but then we go and build ... plants or works..(9) |
| MFRS | They build plants: abbr. |
| DHOW | Initially discovered the way to build a boat |
| SOUTH | The way to build huts around a circle |
| BYE | ___ week (time off in the NFL) |
| MAY | Fleet Week time |
| ITEMISE | The time is wrong, by the way, to do the tabulation (7) |
| CARTHEW | The car broke down at the start of the week, whilst on our way to a village in the parish of Treverbyn (7) |
| INCIDENTALMUSIC | Notes, by the way, to accompany the action (10,5) |
| STORIES | They're related, by the way, to the wild rose I find (7) |
| SALCOMBE | At the start of the week, I left Awliscombe and travelled to a popular resort town in the South Hams district of Devon (8) |
| AMONG | In the middle of answer at the start of the week? Great! (5) |
| GNOMONS | The projecting pieces of sundials that show the time by the position of their shadows (7) |
| RACED | Fighter pilot admitted, by the way, to have speeded |
| NASCENT | Beginning, by the way, to follow a trail (7) |
| TRYST | Attempt, by the way, to find meeting place |
| ASTRINGENT | Harsh call by the way to split a medical department |
