| ASPARTAME | Artificial sweetener is as a norm dull |
| GARDENGNOME | Outside pottery character duly engaged, as a norm (6,5) |
| SACCHARIN | Artificial sweetener which is 300-400 times as sweet as sucrose (9) |
| ROBOT | The only current way this is used in the garden, it could be said, is as a solarpowered, free-moving, grasscutting machine (5) |
| DEATH | Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra |
| AGE | "My ___ is as a lusty winter...": Shakespeare |
| ISSUE | Its use is as a publication |
| TEST | See how good it is, as a match (4) |
| SIGN | Write who one is as a portent (4) |
| LEFTIE | Went, that is, as a socialist (6) |
| SORTIE | I classify it, that is, as a raiding excursion (6) |
| THEORY | The idea is, as a Conservative, he will get in (6) |
| GEEBUNG | I'm surprised sweetener is needed for fruit |
| SUGAR | Sweetener is almost certain to take Georgia in (5) |
| CACHOU | Breath-sweetener is something nutty, we hear (6) |
| PHONEY | Soft sweetener is unreal (6) |
| PARAMOUNT | A horse following a norm that's superior to all others (9) |
| STANDARDIZE | Cause to conform to a norm |
| AVERAGEDROUGHT | Came up with a norm for the dry periods? |
| ABERRANT | Departing from a norm |
