| NASCENCE | Beginning one's comeback, one abandons discipline (8) |
| RESPONSES | Another way to press one's comebacks (9) |
| JUDAICAL | One abandons legal binding area of belief (8) |
| NEOPHYTE | Who's beginning one nasty, noisy brawl? |
| BIGDIPPER | Rock making comeback -- one perhaps described as 'skinny' stars (3,6) |
| INCIPIENT | Beginning one, fancy nice pint (9) |
| ORIGINALLY | At the beginning, one gin taken in by mouth (10) |
| SMASH | Hit show's beginning, one starring Alan Alda (5) |
| MERC | About band from the '90s making comeback: one only works for money (4) |
| SENSATION | Supporting endangered, needy seamen and tourists at the beginning, one working for great success (9) |
| NOTON | Belief one abandons as unacceptable (3,2) |
| EVENTER | Smooth row one abandons for sporting horse (7) |
| GRAVEST | It's most serious when one abandons gravestone! (7) |
| TAMABILITY | Time one abandons friendliness - we may seek it in the wild |
| ENTREE | Unqualified, one abandons English course |
| PANIC | Latin American, for one, abandons his Twitter |
| PLOT | One abandons trial for conspiracy (4) |
| CAMERAS | One abandons America's dodgy shooting equipment (7) |
| ROAM | Move around a lot with rising New Zealander one abandons (4) |
| EAVES | Part of house one abandons, having lost head (5) |
