| CHARACTERISE | Describe the nature of erratic chase going wrong (12) |
| THEATRECRITIC | Sort of erratic jerk chasing the drama expert (7,6) |
| ATOMICTHEORY | Basis of the nature of matter |
| DECOR | Staff upset about extremes of erratic colour scheme (5) |
| RETROACTIVE | Broadcast of erratic vote taking effect from sometime in past (11) |
| HIERARCHICAL | The nature of a system where people are ranked according to their importance (12) |
| STRINGTHEORY | Proposition about the nature of sub-atomic particles (6,6) |
| ASTROPHYSICS | Science dealing with the nature of celestial bodies |
| AESTHETICS | Branch of philosophy concerned with the study of beauty and other matters of taste, especially in relation to the nature of art (10) |
| NOUMENON | In the philosophy of Kant, a thing that is incapable of being known, but only inferred from the nature of experience |
| ICONIC | Of the nature of an image of an admired stereotype in charge |
| CHARACTER | It's the nature of the person in the book (9) |
| ONTOLOGY | The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of existence (8) |
| VOODOO | Name a class of mysterious rites of the nature of sorcery, etc (6) |
| THEOLOGY | The study of the nature of God and religious belief (8) |
| TUFACEOUS | Of the nature of calc-sinter; a cut of use (anag.) (9) |
| CASHIER | The technology of EFTPOS has significantly changed the nature of this retail job in recent years |
| PENINSULAR | Doctor ruins panel depicting the nature of the southern part of India, perhaps (10) |
| UNKNOWABLE | "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the ____" (Ambrose Bierce) |
| GENTRIFY | To alter the nature of an area by the influx of wealthier people, better housing etc (8) |