| PRUNING | Cutting back on parental guidance when admitting arrest (7) |
| GENRES | Eager to change artistic direction, gone on creating stonewares, taking on parental guidance (4,2,4,6) |
| KEENTOSWAP | Eager to change artistic direction, gone on creating stonewares, taking on parental guidance (4,2,4,6) |
| STEPDAD | Relative in position to take on parental duties primarily |
| NEWDAD | One on parental leave, maybe |
| SPARING | In early part of year, a cutting back on consumption (7) |
| EXCERPT | Cutting back on beer in bar (7) |
| PEDICAB | Cutting back on exercises, taking black taxi |
| CURBING | cutting back on |
| NEEDLED | Want to be given guidance when provoked (7) |
| DEVILRY | Unemotional when admitting sin and wickedness |
| STRATUM | Cutting back, cutting total level (7) |
| NEEDING | Short of editor at work, cutting back information (7) |
| EMBROIL | Involve little brother, cutting back tree (7) |
| SESAMES | Understands mother's cutting back plants (7) |
| DOCKING | Medic and ruler cutting back (7) |
| BIVOUAC | Very in debt, cutting back endlessly in camp (7) |
| OKINAWA | Old relative got away, cutting back to a Japanese island (7) |
| DAHLIAS | Son had trouble cutting back flowers (7) |
| PRUNER | Gets Holly back into shape by cutting back on the Chardonnay? (6) |
