| PRORSUS | Directly, absolutely; contracted form from ppp of proverto, -ere |
| LAUNDRY | Derived from a contracted form of "lavender", clothes and linen for washing or those that have been washed; or, the utility room where said ablutions take place (7) |
| ISSE | To have gone; contracted form, perf infin of eo, ire |
| ERE | Poetically contracted form of "earlier" |
| ABBREVIATION | Contracted form of books about flying controls (12) |
| ULULARUNT | They screamed and wailed (contracted form), summo ... ___ vertice Nymphae, Aen 4.168 |
| ABISSE | To have left (contracted form): sic Antipho, Ter. Phormio 466 |
| BOUM | Belonging to bulls (contracted form, as it so often is) |
| EER | Always, in contracted form? (3) |
| TELLFIBS | Produce bits of fiction in form from made-up stories (4,4) |
| HULA | Dance form from which the name of a hoop-based fad is derived |
| ACRONYM | Word form from initial parts of several names (7) |
| BICAMERAL | Sort of parliamentary form from America mislaid in British Library |
| ARIA | Song of set form from opera (4) |
| CODEX | Ancient manuscript text in book form; from Latin, 'block of wood' (5) |
| POE | "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" writer |
| BURKA | Hides the female form from graduate going around old city on weekend (5) |
| RANK | Arrange in list form from best to worst |
| NOH | Art form from Nagasaki or Hiroshima originally (3) |
| DISTRIBUTIONAL | Obtain its lurid form from delivery (14) |
