| OUTMARCHING | Doing better as 17, as were 4 19 9's 11 (11) |
| TENTHOUSANDMEN | 4 19 9's 22 17 in IOM with setter? No! (3,8,3) |
| COUP | Firm doing better as result of masterstroke (4) |
| ABUSED | Maybe 17, as his accusers say, rating American head of state once (6) |
| LENDEIGHTON | Writer is to provide, as 17 is to 9 (3,8) |
| AFTERDINNER | Such speeches as we're fed up hearing |
| KEEP | Act as a retainer, as it were (4) |
| KEEL | Vegetable turned up as foundation of boat as it were (4) |
| PETS | Animals kept in the home (4) 19 Levels (4) |
| HAVINGONE | Wilde's reported bigamy's apparently the 12 as 17 honeymooning fatwa I've collected (6,3,4,3,4) |
| LOST | As my brother and I left Bristol, we got confused and were unable to identify where we were (4) |
| LITTLEWOMEN | Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy ... as well as 17-, 28-, 36-, and 43-Across? |
| ROOTRUN | Cheer cricket score in the undergrowth, as it were (4-3) |
| DYER | He changes colour, as it were (4) |
| NORM | From the start of a new morning come the old rule, as it were. (4) |
| HEADDRESS | Top gear, as it were (4-5) |
| ULNA | In the United Nations, the French point the bone as it were (4) |
| THOU | A bit thoughtful, as you were (4) |
| OMEN | Sign of the future, women's complaint, as it were (4) |
| MOAN | Complaint from empty fellow, as it were (4) |
