| STOPUP | Avoid retirement so as to fill a gap |
| TAP | Call on, as to fill a position |
| LEANTOS | Spare time in retirement, so they're often building extensions (4-3) |
| BEDBUG | It can ruin retirement so pray about developing bud (3,3) |
| 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) |
| LOCUM | Officer returning with hesitation as one to fill a gap? (5) |
| SASHIMI | Dish sent back as one eats something to fill a gap (7) |
| UH | Used to fill a gap in speech (2) |
| PLAINDARN | Note penned by Greek poet, note simply to fill a gap? |
| SCIENCE | Coach begins to fill a gap in niece's muddled knowledge |
| RAIMENT | Plan to fill a gap in the apparel (7) |
| STOPPER | Something to keep by, so as to fill the gap (7) |
| EXPANDS | What work does, according to Parkinson, so as to fill the time available for its completion |
| PARKINSONSLAW | The name of the rule which states that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its comple |
| EXPAND | In Parkinsons's law, work will do this so as to fill the time available for its completion |
| AVAILABLE | "Work expands so as to fill the time ____ for its completion" (E Northcote Parkinson) (9) |
| PLUG | Fill a gap, ... the hole |
| SEALANT | Sugar, maybe, fed to group -- that fills a gap (7) |
| DRAUGHTEXCLUDER | Man, old crossword setter eating last of pud - that fills a gap? |
| AFTERNOONTEA | Perhaps PMT, if talked about, fills a gap (9,3) |
