| TREES | Christmas conifers, say, from a threesome without a home (5) |
| TRIADIC | Detectives' manner transformed initially, turning from a threesome (7) |
| FURLONG | Distance from another conifer, say, to pine |
| MATRIARCH | Month harbouring a threesome without old family head (9) |
| BAUBLE | Word for a child's toy; a gewgaw; a jester's baton; a piece of childish fooling; a plaything; tinsel; a trifle; a trinket; or, a shiny ornament to hang on one's Christmas conifer (6) |
| FIR | Christmas conifer |
| ETERNALTRIANGLE | Threesome without end relating in complex way? (7,8) |
| ALOOF | Reserved a sponge without a home (5) |
| ERASE | Remove some pictures, say, from a camera sent in (5) |
| STRAY | Street light without a home (5) |
| NOMAD | One without a home base |
| FATES | A threesome that would control your life? (5) |
| EWE | We get a letter, you say, from a female (3) |
| EZRA | Made a good profit, say, from a Pound (4) |
| WAIF | What can be a child without a home and friends or a thin and small woman? (4) |
| VAGABOND | One who wanders from place to place without a home or job (8) |
| UTAH | Some without a home in a state (4) |
| ALLSEED | Knotgrass, say, from a lake transforms Leeds (7) |
| MARROWFAT | Vegetable oil, say, from a pea (9) |
| PORE | Spill out, say from a hole (4) |
