| WITHKNOBSON | Chest of drawers could be so described - and something more |
| FOOTFAULT | Bad service - twenty-six could be so described |
| SUBTERRANEAN | Nothing on earth could be so described (12) |
| DOTTY | Scatterbrained? In another case, I could be so described (5) |
| UNROBED | Man in nude possibly could be so described (7) |
| INTERNATIONAL | Italian tenor travelling around Norway could be so described (13) |
| PETITE | Little Women could be so described (6) |
| ODDLY | Strangely, no even money bet could be so described (5) |
| ASBUSYASABEE | No drone could be so described (2,4,2,1,3) |
| FLORA | Plant life collectively or a type of book in which it is identified, described and illustrated; or, the Roman goddess of spring and blossoming plants (5) |
| PLANTS | Described and illustrated in floras and herbals, eukaryotes such as lavenders, mints, thymes, roses and geraniums whose essential oils are used in aromatherapy (6) |
| ORDINAL | How today's theme might be described - and ranked |
| SUPREME | Highest sum described, and the last (7) |
| MICROSCOPE | Magnifying device described and popularised for scientific use by Robert Hooke (10) |
| LIQUID | See 3Dn Could the contents of the wine cellar be so described? (6,6) |
| ASSETS | Could the contents of the wine-cellar be so described? (6,6) |
| CREATIVE | Could the first chapter of Genesis be so described? (8) |
| ASTHMA | Respiratory disorder first described and named ('to breathe hard') by the Greek physician Hippocrates circa 450 BC (6) |
| AGRONOMIC | Way of working recalled in development of organic farmer's market may be so described |
| HIGHBOY | A high or double chest of drawers that are known technically as a chest-on-stand and a chest-on-chest, respectively |