| ONTHEBACK | (& 29-across) Having low priority (2,3,4,6) |
| ONTHEBACKBURNER | Note break (brunch) to be arranged having low priority (2,3,4,6) |
| BACKBURNER | On the ____, phrase meaning 'having low priority' (4,6) |
| CLOWNS | Could start having low ways as comics (6) |
| GRAINY | (Of photo) having low resolution |
| THREES | *Having low, middle and high gears |
| DRY | Having low humidity |
| DECADENT | Having low moral standards (8) |
| RISKY | Having low odds of success |
| BASS | Fish having low sound? (4) |
| ACIDIC | Having low ph levels (6) |
| LIVINGINTHEPAST | 26 across is popular with most of them in 24 across having problems with modernity (6,2,3,4) |
| OVERLAID | Put across, having concluded learner needs help (8) |
| OVERSTEP | Walk across, having finished backing favourites (8) |
| STATELESSPERSON | Most of those in 5 down from Takeaway and 12 across having nowhere to call home (9,6) |
| MOTHER | & 29 Nobel prize winner with dodgy heart? Rest home's the answer! |
| MADE | (& 29-across, 30-across) How noose-maker survived financially (4,4,4) |
| JERILDERIE | (& 29-across) 28-across manifesto - little joke siding with derriere wagging! (10,6) |
| WEEWILLIE | (& 29-across) Nocturnal jogger of nursery rhyme (3,6,6) |
| ROALD | (& 29-across) Matilda creator (5,4) |
