| CONCEIVE | Design is formerly held in vice for shaping |
| UNISEX | One in Rouen is formerly at such a hairdresser's salon perhaps (6) |
| ONCE | Formerly held in concert (4) |
| ASSIZES | The county court sessions formerly held in England and Wales four times a year (7) |
| MENAGERIE | Meaning "household", collection of captive, typically exotic beasts, such as that formerly held in the Tower of London that included leopards or lions, a polar bear and an elephant (9) |
| PRESS | Utensil for crushing garlic; a type of vice for flattening flowers; or, a device for extracting juice from grapes/olives (5) |
| SLIP | Indulge in a former vice ... for this once |
| UNCOMMUNICATIVE | Doesn't talk much but might count Mum in a vice for a change (15) |
| CLAMP | Type of vice for a workbench; device for immobilising a vehicle; or, a heap of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth or straw (5) |
| SPIRO | Richard's vice, for a while? |
| OPTIC | Looker's plump, with vice for stripping off |
| MOP | Floor-washing dwile after which an autumn fair formerly held for the hire of domestics derived its name (3) |
| PATRESE | Riccardo, Formula 1 motor racing driver who formerly held the record for most Grand Prix races (7) |
| WAS | Formerly held the position of |
| RETAKE | Seize, as formerly held land |
| FORSWEARS | Disavows a formerly held belief |
| CONCESSION | Snack bar formerly held by rowdy scions (10) |
| RECANT | Publicly reject a formerly held belief (6) |
| ASPREVIOUSLYSTATIONED | At the post one formerly held? |
| RECANTS | Retracts a formerly held belief |
