| INSIGNIFICANT | At home notice one female, one with inclination to be trifling |
| PUGILIST | Dog, one with inclination to be a fighter (8) |
| INSECURE | At home, notice dog is kept safe? Hardly (8) |
| ANGLER | One with inclination to go to river? (6) |
| ESCALATORCLAUSE | Contract provision about increasing an offer on a home (notice letters 8 to 10 in this answer) |
| OBIT | Funeral home notice, briefly |
| ABSORBENT | Wild boars with inclination to be receptive (9) |
| LEANER | Somebody with inclination to be less fat? (6) |
| SLEIGHT | Said to be trifling with skill (7) |
| PETTY | Childishly attractive without right to be trifling |
| NEURASTHENIA | Points to classy Rasta grabbing female, one with inability to cope (12) |
| LEARN | Succeed at school, with inclination to accept basic element of education |
| GALLANT | Female with inclination to ignore overture, from him? |
| CORMORANT | Bird with inclination to cross rocky moor to river |
| HIDDEN | Obscure female, one with two daughters to accommodate |
| STILTON | Boy with inclination to eat food from Cambridgeshire? (7) |
| WISHLIST | Wife is hard with inclination to get a series of desirable items (4,4) |
| BENDTHEELBOW | Day consumed by crooked, unreliable type with inclination to drink too much |
| TRIDENT | Naval weapon, flipping scandal, with inclination to waste billions (7) |
| ENCHANT | Delight, with inclination to go topless (7) |
