| RECITES | About to rise, etc, and repeats a poem from memory (7) |
| PERIODS | What is good normally decays and repeats meaninglessly (7) |
| ITERATES | Head off to site, at various speeds, and repeats it all over again (8) |
| RECITE | Repeat a poem |
| GRAMPUS | Whale to blow endlessly, about to rise? (7) |
| ALGIERS | Capital gal about to rise spectacularly (7) |
| INFERNO | Fire unspecified number, about to rise, breaking word (7) |
| CHARTER | A formal document from the sovereign or state incorporating a city, bank, college, etc and specifying its purposes and rights (7) |
| SWIFTER | Faster bird about to rise (7) |
| RESPECT | Observe haunting vision's about to rise |
| NATWEST | A bank where blows wild thyme etc and Titania some night, initially (7) |
| ASPECTS | Observe a pass etc. and the various ways of looking at them (7) |
| INSPECT | They take it for a spin etc. and look into it (7) |
| REDATES | Repeats a carbon-14 test, say |
| REREDOS | Screen repeats a second time? |
| RETREAD | Three times go back to study-and repeat (7) |
| ITERATE | After commencement, able to read and repeat (7) |
| NITWITS | Terrible twins grabbing computers, etc, and mugs (7) |
| MONITOR | In back room put new computers etc and screen (7) |
| PICKLES | Vegetables, preserved in brine, vinegar, mustard, etc. and used as a relish |