| FLAGELLATE | Birch is retrospectively l-lawful in the end (10) |
| INUSE | Piece from the Sun is retrospectively employed |
| EDNA | __ Birch is relieved that her mate Pearl Ladderbanks is staying in the Dales (4) |
| BRONCHITIS | Tube problem? Wielding birch is not the answer (10) |
| HAT | What Dales resident Edna Birch is always wearing ___ even if she's indoors! (3) |
| LEGIT | It's lawful, in brief, to flee (5) |
| LEGAL | Member meets Capone - it's lawful in Boston (5) |
| HALAL | Arabic term which means permissible or lawful in Islam, often applied to meat (5) |
| TAKEADEKKO | NZ parrot occupying reserves approved retrospectively, about a thousand, look |
| EVILMINDED | Jean stops daughter breathing -seen retrospectively as wicked (4-6) |
| BUTTON | Switch is all retrospectively over the top in essence (6) |
| BEATNIK | Hit that was fashionable retrospectively at back end of the 1950s for youth in scruffy clothes (7) |
| MILITARY | Services settled on being included in year end retrospectively |
| LATERON | Looking retrospectively, some ignore talent in the future (5,2) |
| DIPLOMA | Retrospectively, detective is filling in a month-old document |
| SADNESS | The Blues retrospectively send in crack team (7) |
| FALSETTO | Male voice is phoney and, retrospectively, over-the-top (8) |
| NUDIST | Exhibitionist reports that this is done retrospectively at first (6) |
| ETERNITY | Some hesitation in retrospectively entering painter's age (8) |
| LATIN | It's spoken retrospectively by some in Italy? (5) |