| DECLARER | Charlie beginning to like more expensive clothes, he asserts (8) |
| RARER | Like more expensive art, often |
| SHEEP | Type of farmer seen in clothes he epitomises (5) |
| COWER | Charlie beginning to emerge in terrible row and crouch in fear (5) |
| CHANCE | Jackie, maybe, and Charlie beginning to exploit opportunity (6) |
| ULYSSESSGRANT | When he speaks he "asserts snugly"? |
| TALLBOY | In which to store clothes he's grown out of? (7) |
| CUPHEA | Genus of the 'cigar plant' - partly buttercup, he asserts (6) |
| ARMANI | Particular man inspiring clothes - him? (6) |
| LEARNING | Beginning to like receiving tuition (8) |
| REFINERY | Extremely rare, expensive clothes in industrial plant (8) |
| POLONECK | Cut back on expensive clothes, primarily, and start to knit a sweater |
| TAKINGTO | Beginning to like carpeting with length cut (6,2) |
| SHOULDER | Keep quiet! Sounds like more grizzly bear! (8) |
| ADULTERY | Cheating's "like, more grown-up" apparently! (8) |
| GRANDEES | Sounds like more than a single nobleman would befit so noble a woman. (8) |
| CONSTANT | Unchanging, like more than half of Istanbul once |
| CRISPIER | Like more recently fried fries, perhaps |
| BRISTOL | Moving right towards the front in restaurant, beginning to like city of fashion? |
| GRASSLAND | In August, equine beginning to like grazing here |
