| SECATEURS | A paragon without regret champions northbound cutters (9) |
| LONERANGER | Silver-mounted paragon without flaws? (4,6) |
| OBSTRUCTS | Old boy almost impressed a paragon going around blocks (9) |
| CLAMOUR | Demand, without regret, cruel foreigner's love (7) |
| REMORSELESS | Without regret or guilt |
| CRUEL | Ruthless Conservative line taken without regret (5) |
| HITHERTO | Strike leading actor without regret ultimately, up until now |
| CONSTANT | Interpret without regret and worker will be loyal (8) |
| RIND | Coat you throw away without regret |
| IMPENITENT | Inept men worried about it without regret (10) |
| REMORSELESSLY | Without regret or guilt (13) |
| CHERUB | Without regret, finally butcher poor innocent baby (6) |
| PALADIN | What a noise from a friend! A paragon of knighthood, too! |
| AMATEURISH | Done in an inept way as Mennonite sect without regret takes volunteers back |
| OUROBOROS | Upper-class cheat, 7 repeatedly, not quite a paragon, a self-absorbed 23 (9) |
| PERFECT | Word describing a paragon diamond or, formerly, a score of 10.0 for a routine in artistic gymnastics (7) |
| GEM | Word, from "bud", hence a term for "budding", for a jewel; one regarded as a paragon or treasure; an emerald or other jewel-like hummingbird; or, old type, smaller than diamond (3) |
| MODEL | A paragon is a toy version of the real thing (5) |
| PEARL | A line about a paragon |
| CARATS | 100 ___ (weight beyond which a flawless diamond is called a paragon) |
