| LOIR | Dormouse stretched out in gloomier setting? |
| LYING | Stretched out in the air, topless (5) |
| LAIN | Stretched out in bed |
| MAT | It's stretched out in yoga class |
| EKED | Stretched out in mid-week editions |
| REACHED | Stretched out in the shade, long to |
| STRUNG | Stretched out in a line, like strummed instruments (6) |
| GARDENFLAT | What Adam has stretched out in a ground floor apartment (6,4) |
| EMBROGLIO | Gloomier deviant shrouds black mass in confusion |
| GRAYER | More ash-coloured and gloomier in outlook |
| TEAPOT | Receptacle in which the dormouse is deposited in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (6) |
| DINGIER | Gloomier restaurant entered by soldier (7) |
| DURER | Artist is gloomier losing something Giotto famously drew |
| TROUBLEMAKER | Agitator, gloomier, accepting end of dream after dreadful rout (12) |
| DREARIER | Doctor, before losing heart, getting gloomier (8) |
| DARKENED | Ken dared to be changed, but just got gloomier! (8) |
| DARKENS | Lair swims initially around vessel, gets gloomier (7) |
| GROT | Gloomier occupant discontented with dirt |
| HAZEL | Associated with a species of dormouse, an often coppiced tree with filberts represented in heraldic avellane crosses and with catkins or lamb's-tails in spring; or, the greenish-brownish colour of sai |
| HAZELNUT | Whether eaten by a dormouse, squirrel or woodpecker in the wild or by a human in chocolate spread or a gold foil-wrapped Ferrero praline ball, it is a cob, filbert or noisette (8) |
