| REALITYTV | Castaway 2000 was early example of this (7,2) |
| TARANSAY | Outer Hebridean isle where BBC TV's Castaway 2000 was set (8) |
| FOGLE | Ben ___, presenter who found fame on Castaway 2000 (5) |
| INNOCENTS | Early example of mass infanticide (9,2,3,9) |
| SLAUGHTER | Early example of mass infanticide (9,2,3,9) |
| ROCKOPERA | Tommy by The Who is an early example of the genre |
| EXAMINING | Going through early examples of extracting ores, etc. |
| PRECEDENT | When Eden crept about, it served as an early example (9) |
| STOPWATCH | With an early example invented by horologist Samuel Watson, a device also called a chronograph for timing races and lap times or "splits" (9) |
| EMAIL | Jerry Lewis's "Nutty Professor" was an early example of one |
| NERD | Jerry Lewis's "Nutty Professor" was an early example of one |
| BASEMETAL | Iron is an example of this type of substance (4,5) |
| JAMESJOYCE | Novelist influenced by Edouard Dujardin's Les lauriers sont coupes, an early example of stream of consciousness |
| PRETTYTHINGS | Band founded in Sidcup in 1963, whose S F Sorrow album was an early example of rock opera |
| BEFORETIME | Early example of an oxymoron? (6,4) |
| OTTOMANEMPIRE | Early example of 'sofa' government? |
| OFTHE | Early example of mass infanticide (9,2,3,9) |
| ZENOSPARADOX | Early example of reductio ad absurdum |
| HAIRSALON | Blades in Walford is an example of this kind of business (4,5) |
| APRILFOOL | The 1957 Panorama news report on the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland's Ticino canton was an example of this |
