| ASDARKASNIGHT | A dish rag stank and turned out to be not very illuminating (2,4,2,5) |
| VALERIE | Summer Bay newcomer who's friends with Leah, and turned out to be a very bad influence on Theo! (7) |
| FUNGUS | Seemed pleasurable, Gus, and turned out to be a type of mushroom (6) |
| LIGHT | It's not heavy and very illuminating! |
| FLASHBULB | Second cry goes up - it's very illuminating |
| JEJUNE | I, in France, find a certain month to be not very interesting (6) |
| SECONDCLASS | Not the first form to be not very good (6-5) |
| SLOWISH | Endless hard work? Desire to be not very busy (7) |
| NOGREATSHAKES | Small milky drinks could be not very good |
| SPRINKLE | The first recipe written by Spike, a head chef from Calne, turned out to be not quite right -- it needed a small amount of sugar to be added (8) |
| UNMET | Amusement turned out to be not same, not realised yet (5) |
| DISADVANTAGE | Dad navigates but turns out to be not a good idea (12) |
| EXEMPT | Old temp turned out to be not liable (6) |
| SHORTER | Her sort turned out to be not as long (7) |
| IMAGE | Fair game turned out to be not far from the popular perception (5) |
| UNWORTHY | These two youth leaders in Hurn turned out to be not at all deserving of our respect (8) |
| PERMANENT | Men with parent turning out to be not temporary (9) |
| INIMICAL | In claim, I set out to be not at all friendly (8) |
| NONPARASITIC | Croatian spin turns out to be not exploitative (12) |
| MABEY | Nature writer and broadcaster and whose book titles include Food for Free, The Unofficial Countryside, Flora Britannica and Turned Out Nice Again (5) |