| OPTICAL | Current, with temperature dropping a little, is a type of illusion |
| SHANGRILA | A Hilton invention is dropping a little honey, then a little lime, into wine punch |
| LEARNING | "A little ... is a dangerous thing" (Pope) |
| KNOWLEDGE | "A little ---- is a dangerous thing" (9) |
| LITOTES | Tales about drink wherein not a little is a lot? (7) |
| HIP | Flexible word with various meanings including a huckle-bone-and-flexor-containing bodily haunch; a red fruit of the wild rose; part of a cheer-invoking cry; a word for "fashionably current, with-it"; |
| HABIT | To breathe a little is quite usual! |
| ISOMERS | A little is found in iridium and special substances (7) |
| LOATHSOME | Unwilling to shelter adult a little is detestable (9) |
| KIT | Strip act I knew a little is on the up (3) |
| BACKBITER | Supporter concealing something small is a bitchy type (9) |
| FARTHING | Anything very small is a distant object (8) |
| ENCHILADA | Fish in river ___ with temperature dropping, one boy takes a wrap (9) |
| MASSIF | From poles, with temperature dropping, one following series of peaks |
| ACACIA | Shrub in areas full of prickly plants, with temperature dropping (6) |
| ALERTS | Warnings of changes with temperature dropping (6) |
| AFRICAN | One coming from Nigeria, maybe, in a craft at sea with temperature dropping (7) |
| ALERT | Warning of change with temperature dropping (5) |
| EXPOSURE | Risk of former partner sitting on carriage with temperature dropping (8) |
| AMPS | Abbreviation for units of electrical current, with each equal to a flow of one coulomb per second (4) |
