| BASSETS | Dogs might be best to guard the animal (7) |
| MACHETE | One who might be best to hide revolutionary weapon |
| BEAGLEORBAGEL | Card game in which sleeping dogs might be mistaken for breakfast rolls |
| DURANGO | A man on both ends to guard the city (7) |
| TORONTO | A man on both ends to guard the city (7) |
| PENATES | Said to guard the home, but they make pa tense (7) |
| SAMOYED | Dog might be trained someday (7) |
| SPANIEL | Type of dog, might be Cocker or Springer (7) |
| OYSTERS | Bivalve molluscs considered luxury foods, said to be best eaten during months containing the letter "R" when the sea is at its coldest (7) |
| NEATEST | Cattle, at the end, stop half way to be best kept (7) |
| PILLARS | The peaks (Gibraltar and Mount Sidi Moussa) that guard the entrance to the Mediterranean, the ... of |
| PARSNIP | Traditionally said to be best after the first frost, a root vegetable used for savoury rsti, game chips, sweet cakes or warm salads with puy lentils/walnuts (7) |
| OPTIMUM | Choose one relation to be best (7) |
| HONESTY | Toy hens turn out to be best policy (7) |
| ENTRIES | Shaven-headed folk who might who guard The Doors? (7) |
| EVIDENT | It's clear the vet and I must somehow guard the lair (7) |
| ANTIBES | It may be best in a French resort (7) |
| TROUNCE | Their hollow measure could be best? (7) |
| OPTIMAL | Rice, e.g. squeezed by stone, must be best (7) |
| BATHERS | Railings guard the people swimming (7) |
