| MISBEHAVE | Copy a poor conductor (9) |
| INSULATOR | Our Stalin makes a poor conductor (9) |
| LEAD | Very malleable, ductile, and dense metal that is a poor conductor of electricity. Known in antiquity and believed by the alchemists to be the oldest of metals. Highly durable and resistant to corrosio |
| APOCRYPHA | Copy a harp used to accompany a religious writing (9) |
| CARBONARA | Copy a recipe - just starter and a sauce |
| DROPFORGE | Discard, then copy, a metal-shaping device (4,5) |
| IMITATION | Copy: a pale - of the real thing |
| PRATTLE | Gas is primarily poor conductor |
| WOOD | Poor conductor of electricity |
| BANDLEADER | Metal within end bar poor conductor (10) |
| FACSIMILE | Copy a brief selection of miscellaneous characters up into dossier |
| DIELECTRIC | Poor conductor to fail with terrible recital, no ace with music ultimately (10) |
| REPEAT | A copy; a motif duplicated in a pattern; a retracing of one's course; or, a second, third, fourth etc broadcast of a radio/television programme (6) |
| PRINT | A copy, a newspaper, a replica, a stamp, type or other impression (5) |
| SAVE | Copy (a computer file) to a storage disk (4) |
| ENCYCLOPAEDIA | Decline a copy - a faulty source of information |
| LIMITATION | A number copy a restriction (10) |
| MIMIC | Copy a key for a girl |
| RADIUSLEND | Letting a fellow geometry student copy a measurement? |
| IMITATE | Copy a letter from a possibly intimate source (7) |
