| ASSOCIATE | Connect with team-mate, although not a full member (9) |
| EXTRA | Plays his part although not a hit |
| AMATTEROFTIME | Awful rift with team-mate getting duck - it had to happen eventually (1,6,2,4) |
| UNCONFIRMED | Not a full member of the church, it is rumoured |
| ALLINGHAM | Celebrated Victorian painter whose rustic rural scenes and illustrations for Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd gained her fame and honour as the first woman to be admitted as a full member of the Roy |
| SIDESWIPE | It's not a full-on blow, but the team does pinch (9) |
| CRESCENDO | Party under the moon (not a full one) gradually getting louder (9) |
| CONFIRMED | Proved to be true that one had been admitted as full member of the church (9) |
| PREPOLLEX | US president keeping vote lead in east, not a full digit |
| ADORATION | Although not new, a gift had right to respect (9) |
| COLLEAGUE | Team-mate in company joins liberal association (9) |
| UNCERTAIN | In turn, ace was played, although not sure about it (9) |
| ROMANYRYE | One who associates with gypsies although not one himself (6,3) |
| ISOMORPHS | Moors come to grief in shipwreck - although not related, they look similar (9) |
| LATECOMER | Left at the end with one showing promise, although not on time (4-5) |
| IMPRECISE | I'm quite definite, although not completely sure (9) |
| PTEROSAUR | Although not technically a dinosaur, this group of archosaurs were the first reptiles, as well as the first vertebrates, capable of flight. |
| ILLHEALTH | Will he? (Although not all there, and suffering) (3,6) |
| GETTINGON | Prospering although not so young (7,2) |
| LIKEALAMB | March goes out this way, following old team-mate of I.Botham? (4,1,4) |