| GAYDAR | Ability to sense a particular orientation |
| SATANG | First to sense a whiff of change in Thailand (6) |
| CARESS | Nurses beginning to sense a stroke (6) |
| DESPOT | Tyrant's ability to sense breaking point (6) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| VESSEL | A bowl, cask, jar, pan, pot, pitcher or other domestic utensil designed as a receptacle; a large boat or ship; or, in its biblical sense, a person regarded as a container of feelings or an embodiment |
| PLUMBERS | '70s covert White House intelligence group ... and, in a more conventional sense, a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| QUARREL | From the French word "carre", for "square", a square-headed bolt for an arbalest/crossbow; a square tile; a square- or diamond-shaped pane; or, in another sense, a squabble (7) |
| FEELUPTO | Have the energy to sense to a point (4,2,2) |
| GRAPE | You don't have to be a sommelier to sense that it's the essence of wine |
| PENCE | "What need you, being come to sense, / But fumble in a greasy till / And add the half... to the ..." (Yeats) |
| SNEEZE | Beginning to sense joints, reportedly a symptom of flu |
| AURA | Field that a psychic claims to sense |
| SALUT | Word, from Dutch for "break up a ship on rocks", for a crack, rent, rip or tear, such as that of an idiomatic hair; or, in another sense, a cream-and-jam-filled Cornish or Devonshire bun (5) |
| FEEL | Sense a charge to the left |
| SIGHTSEER | Seeing sense a prophet becomes a tourist (9) |
| TASTELESS | Sense a smaller amount would make it a bit bland |
| INANIMATENESS | In a sense a mint copy displays immobility (13) |
| DETECTOR | Device to sense when to turn off includes time in firm (8) |
| SATISFACTION | Director's order to briefly meet expectations, from the start, leads to sense of achievement (12) |
