| ARABIANSEA | A bare Asian swimming in our western waters (7,3) |
| PONDWEED | Quietly supported by act protecting western water plant |
| ROEBUCK | Deer swimming in our beck (7) |
| PLANETEARTH | Elephant and rat swimming in our home |
| IONIANSEA | One working with Asian swimming across eastern part of Mediterranean (6,3) |
| PEEPINGTOM | A bare look blinded him |
| SQUEAK | A sound of a mouse or a pan of bubbling, frying colcannon; a rat or snitch; a pipe or whine; a single remark; a narrow escape; a jot; a bare chance; or, a feeble paper/local rag (6) |
| RESOD | Fill in, as a bare spot in a yard |
| HUBBARD | A winter squash other than the acorn, buttercup/nut, carnival or delicata; or, with "Mother", a loose flowing gown, named after a nursery-rhyme dame with a bare cupboard (7) |
| BRAE | A bare runaway in a Scottish hillside (4) |
| STANDARD | A tree with a bare, upright stem and a crown of branches (8) |
| BLOT | A "bare, exposed, naked" man in backgammon; a weak spot; or, an ink splodge or figurative stain (4) |
| SCAR | A bare spot on a hillside (4) |
| NUDIST | One living a bare existence playing in dust (6) |
| MARRIAGEABLE | Give me a bare girl, a sort who's nubile (12) |
| NUDGE | Draw attention to a bare condition, with an elbow in the ribs (5) |
| AIRBORNE | Flying in a bare iron fabrication (8) |
| LEANLY | In a bare-bones way |
| CURATOR | One in charge of arranging show exhibits dog upon a bare hill (7) |
| ATLEAST | East put in book of maps before west finally as a bare minimum (2,5) |
