| PEDANTRY | Chap confined in small room - it's formality |
| LUPIN | Small room, it's said, has secure plant (5) |
| BLACKTIE | Bet on a draw, about 50, it's formality (5,3) |
| HAUL | Quantity of fish in college dining room, it's said (4) |
| DRAWBACK | Obstacle in hospital room, it's inferred? (8) |
| DIN | In a reading room, it's generally unwelcome |
| SWEEP | Check for bugs in room: it's a lottery (5) |
| SNAILSPACE | Catches in the room: it's very slow (6,4) |
| ENSLAVED | Captive in small room in home counties in terminal situation (8) |
| OSMIUM | There was no orc in the music room. It's elementary (6) |
| DRESSER | Will it suit any room it's put into? (7) |
| DEVON | See nothing in small room in Tavistock Place? (5) |
| CHRISM | Holy oil in church is kept in small room (6) |
| SUDDEN | No end of a dust-up on private room, it's so abrupt (6) |
| BRAINCELL | Some sense in this, perhaps: finding undergarment in small room (5,4) |
| LOOTER | Thief in small room starts to take everything regardless (6) |
| CAPELLA | A piano in small room is used by a star (7) |
| TOIL | Work in small room -- waste of energy and time (4) |
| MITCHELL | Writer had initially settled in small room at US university (8) |
| CELLO | In small room, old musical instrument (5) |