| DESTROYS | Davenport isn't finished on old city's ruins (8) |
| UNPROVEN | It's yet to be confirmed a foreign professional isn't finished on range (8) |
| ITEMISED | Listed venue is missing lead and penny pincher isn't finished on top deck (8) |
| DYNASTIC | Of a ruling family and city's ruin (8) |
| IMMATURE | Hypatia's friend describing old city's naive (8) |
| IMPURITY | The writer's regret about old city's corrupt constituent |
| BRERETON | District of Cheshire East, including ___ Heath, Smethwick Green and Davenport; notable landmarks include ___ Hall, a Grade I listed Elizabethan house, and The Bear's Head pub on ___ Green (8) |
| COUPLING | Sitcom in which Jack Davenport played Steve Taylor (8) |
| SOFASEAT | Spot on the davenport |
| BRITTNEY | Tom, British actor who plays the Reverend Will Davenport in TV drama series Grantchester (8) |
| VERONICA | ____ Hamel, U.S. actress who played lawyer Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (8) |
| PROPERTY | Davenport |
| QUADCITY | From the area of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline, ironically |
| THISLIFE | 1990s BBC drama series whose cast includes Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri and Andrew Lincoln |
| PARVENU | Public garden isn't finished on Trim site produced by upstart (7) |
| QUARTET | Neighbourhood isn't finished on time for group going through the numbers (7) |
| TWEET | Square pot isn't finished on time - the messenger is responsible for it (5) |
| COUNTYCOURT | Tycoon cut up about old citys tribunal, say (6,5) |
| OURSELVES | Old, old city's little people - us, emphatically |
| TROY | Which ancient city's ruins are an important archaeological site at Hisarlik, Turkey? (4) |
