| PREMONITION | Advance idea of trouble (11) |
| PRECONCEPTIONS | Advance ideas of newspapers mostly about fertilisation |
| PRECONCEPTION | Advance idea from papa about beginning of pregnancy |
| THOUGHTLESS | Having people's no feelings? idea of other (11) |
| ABSTRACTION | General idea of a botanist driving a battered car (11) |
| PORTMANTEAU | Leather travel bag opening into two equal parts; or, from the idea of two meanings packed into one word, Lewis Carroll's term for a "blend" (11) |
| COMMONSENSE | 1776 Thomas Paine pamphlet that supported the idea of an American Revolution: 2 wds. |
| TOBEDESIRED | Sparse, wild Gobi Desert holding central idea of appealing object (5,2,2,7) |
| ESCAPE | Based on the Latin for "out of one's cloak", word, alluding to the idea of leaving a pursuer clutching just one's coat, for an act of breaking free (6) |
| THEME | Unifying idea of a work of art (5) |
| OUTLINE | A rough idea of the direction of exit? |
| OBSESSION | Fixed idea of old boy ahead of meeting (9) |
| DIVISIONAL | Phone to receive idea of part of company (10) |
| GROUNDING | Head of governors giving rough idea of foundation |
| ELLA | Actress Rubin of The Idea of You |
| ENORMITY | Looking back to end of July, Timothy is on Rhone losing his head - it gives some idea of huge proble |
| FANCYDRESS | Like the idea of force devoid of uniform or distinctive costume (5,5) |
| HAITI | The idea of the zombie originated in the folklore of which country? (5) |
| ZOONOMIA | Work by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, in which he explored early idea of evolution (8) |
| ADIEU | Word of final significance has idea of changing upper-class (5) |
