| UNDERLYING | Basic yard kept by subordinate (10) |
| INTERIOR | Domestic servant finally replacing folio lost by subordinate |
| SUBCOMMITTEE | Tommies' cut be ordered by subordinate division of group (12) |
| UNDERORDERS | Being directed by subordinate ranks (5,6) |
| UNDERSTATED | Subtle fact hidden by subordinate journalist |
| SHOPASSISTANT | Quiet work done by subordinate who makes plenty of sales |
| DEFLOWER | Ruin agent set up by subordinate (8) |
| LITHENESS | One immediately taken in by subordinate's flexibility (9) |
| STEALMYTHUNDER | Untrue, stale story by subordinate to win praise that should be mine (5,2,7) |
| UNDER | Backed by subordinate at the start of 10 across (5) |
| ACCUSTOMED | Cat kept by defendant as familiar (10) |
| CONVOLUTED | Complex book kept by enthusiast in school (10) |
| CIGARETTES | Tabs kept by spooks conclusively spying on revolutionary individual like me (10) |
| SURREALIST | Dali, say, is core of art kept by certain top celebrities (10) |
| CHAMBERPOT | Short dictionary (pocket) that used to be kept by the bed (10) |
| VIGILANTES | Vigil kept by social workers in the east revealing amateur law-enforcers (10) |
| GARGANTUAN | Enormous Arab, good worker for all to see, kept by group endlessly (10) |
| REPELLENTS | Period of fasting, kept by lepers in a bad way, is unpleasant stuff (10) |
| TAMBOURINE | Instrument for all to see kept by Rob in team nervously (10) |
| TERRACOTTA | ____ Army, sculptures of warriors, chariots and horses kept by China's first emperor (10) |
