| AIRHOLE | Breathing-space, or a holier setting for it (7) |
| BANDAGE | Cover wound and beg a different setting for it (7) |
| SANCTIMONIOUS | Mostly snooty musician, unfortunately with a holier-than-thou attitude |
| PRIEST | A holier-than-thou game despatcher? (6) |
| SCENE | Play its part, or the setting for it (5) |
| CAESURA | Pause or natural breathing space in a line of verse, typically near the middle (7) |
| NOSTRIL | A breathing space everyone needs (7) |
| RESPITE | Get some breathing space from sixth sense, in practice (7) |
| ACETONE | Need breathing space to negate the solvent inside (7) |
| TRACHEA | Extra cheap displays of breathing space (7) |
| FAIRWAY | Golfer's target, leader of field needing breathing space? (7) |
| MENTHOL | Payment holiday provides means to create breathing space |
| REGION | Area or administrative district of a country; a portion of outer space; or, a division or part of the body (6) |
| PREACHY | Holier-than-thou? (7) |
| LEISURE | Breathing space |
| AIRSACS | Publicise openings of Scottish and Cumbrian sites as breathing spaces (3-4) |
| CLOSE | A word meaning "to shut", hence a shut-in courtyard, cul-de-sac, lane, small field or other confined space; or, a cathedral's surrounding precinct (5) |
| HOLD | Aeroplane or ship's cargo space; or, a pause in music indicated with a fermata (4) |
| FLIGHT | Series of steps, hurdles or canal locks; journey by balloon or through space; or, a flock of swallows (6) |
| ETHER | Word for clear upper air originally, later a rarefied substance formerly believed to permeate all space; or, a sweet-scented volatile liquid (5) |
