| SETINSTONE | Choice of music for fashionable school has attitude - that's the way it has always been (3,2,5) |
| ROOKIE | Whether a mangled version of "recruit", a nod to a fledgeling in breeches or put on the map by Rudyard Kipling, it has always meant the new kid on the block (6) |
| CONTINUAL | Unceasing, the way it has lain: count it out (9) |
| DOMED | Odd, the way it has me rounded on top (5) |
| DYNAMOKIEV | The usual English name for a team which has always played in the top division of Soviet or Ukrainian football |
| HIPPODROME | Fashionable school built next to Rome's music hall (10) |
| IMAFRAIDSO | 'Sorry, but that's the way it is' |
| SADBUTTRUE | "That's the way it is, unfortunately" |
| ORSONWLLES | Film director who said "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time" |
| HUB | "The ... capital has always been the financial of the country" |
| EXPOSITION | Display attitude that's no longer current? |
| SWAMPFEVER | Complaint fellow has always associated with Slough |
| EYEBROW | "My acting range has always been something between the extremes of 'raises left _' and 'raises right _'": Roger Moore (7) |
| TUFT | Be it carpet pile, golden toffish tassel threads, hair, hay or the grassy crest of a hilly tump, the meaning of this word has always revolved around the idea of a bunch or clump (4) |
| LIAR | "Success has always been the greatest ___": Nietzsche |
| LEAN | The non-fat D. Quaid has always been this. |
| MARTHAMYDEAR | Beatles song about a woman who has "always been my inspiration": 3 wds. |
| ASISAY | "My opinion has always been ..." |
| IMMIGRANT | "American literature has always been ____" (Salman Rushdie) |
| REVERED | Socialist has always been respected (7) |
