| IPSA | "Itself," in a phrase |
| MAGPIE | Bird that can recognize itself in a mirror |
| AMOUR | Love finds itself in a drink knocked back (5) |
| EYAM | The Derbyshire village that quarantined itself in a 1665 plague |
| SOLITAIRE | Gemstone set by itself in a piece of jewelry |
| BIRDSNEST | Flyer's abode may find itself in a soup (5,4) |
| PALETTE | Let the peat compost itself in a range of colours (7) |
| DILL | This can find itself in a pickle |
| SECONDBATTLEOFYPRES | Canada distinguished itself in action in World War I in Belgium in 1915 in the ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| PHOENIX | In Greek mythology, this bird is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates itself. In Henry VI, Part 3 (act 1, scene 4), York says, "My ashes as the ___, may bring forth / A bird that will revenge |
| REIPSA | In the matter itself, in the very thing, in ____ ____ |
| PERSE | In itself, in Latin |
| SOY | "Ever thought that '___ milk' is just milk introducing itself in Spanish?" (God, this one's a real g |
| ROOTING | Of a plant, establishing itself in the soil (7) |
| STATEOFWAR | Disagreeable situation for a country to find itself in (5,2,3) |
| OREO | Cookie with a jokey November tweet showing itself in mashed potatoes |
| AFISHOUTOFWATER | Unsustainable cod in chipper perhaps is completely unsuitable to the environment it finds itself in (1,4,3,2,5) |
| ADAPTATIONS | A wood frog's ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus's ability to change color, for two |
| SQUARE | The product of a quantity multiplied by itself in mathematics (6) |
| POWER | How many times a number is multiplied by itself, in math |
