| SEAEAGLE | Bird usually seen as a clue, not an answer |
| NEWSITEM | Story that could be seen as a clue to Times? (4,4) |
| UNTOLD | It's a clue not spoken of |
| ADVOCATE | Support taking drink with added Ecstasy? That's not an answer |
| IDEST | Latin phrase that's usually seen as initials |
| MINION | Which employee is usually seen as favoured or servile (6) |
| RUST | Fungal disease affecting many plants, usually seen as orange spots or rings appearing on stems and leaves (4) |
| EGRET | A wading bird usually with a white or buff plumage (5) |
| LAPWING | A type of shore bird, usually with a crested head (7) |
| LATESTART | Result of oversleeping (read each starred answer as a clue for a single letter!) |
| CRYPTIC | From Greek for "hidden", a word for something mysterious, obscure, occult, puzzling or secret, such as a clue in an enigmatic crossword of the same name; or, the camouflaging colouring of certain anim |
| CATALOGUES | Lists got as a clue for a change |
| WRONGDOER | As a clue for "rode", it's a bad 'un! (9) |
| CROW | Bird usually heads into bars for a fight - that's some boast (4) |
| SUEZCANAL | Cut out of New Zealand as a clue (4,5) |
| OVERSTEP | Go too far as a clue to cats and dogs? (8) |
| ALCAEUS | Poet friend of Sappho anagram of AS A CLUE |
| LOANABLE | Can be advanced as a clue (8) |
| SURFACES | Comes up with, as a clue, "The best on board" (8) |
| NONSENSEVERSES | Some of Lear maybe serves as a clue? |
