| INTERPLAY | Drama about caretaker, for example, initially powerless in mutual action (9) |
| RESIDENTIAL | Accommodating people, like an initially powerless political leader (11) |
| DECADENCE | Moral decline of 1960s for example initially narked church (9) |
| NEGLIGENT | First night, for example, initially lost one guy; so careless (9) |
| ULTIMATUM | Much of period involved in mutual wrangling ___ what may end it? (9) |
| NEURALNET | You reportedly learnt processing with numerous examples initially! (6,3) |
| CORRELATE | Place in mutual relation |
| DREGS | Doctor, for example, initially seeing grounds (5) |
| FEMALE | For example, initially he or she (6) |
| EGGS | They are, for example, initially good scrambled (4) |
| EGGWHITE | Viscous substance, for example, initially goes pale |
| EGGHEAD | An intellectual for example initially goaded the leader (7) |
| ADRIFT | Daughter in a break-up is powerless, in the main (6) |
| INTER | Bury as mutual action without play (5) |
| RECIPROCAL | Adjective or noun expressing mutual action (10) |
| JUMPERS | They warm you up and get you going when powerless (in play) (7) |
| BELITTLE | Disparage prime minister, powerless in beauty's embrace |
| GLIDER | It's powerless in the air (6) |
| IMMENSE | I am people's example, initially, and great (7) |
| VAPID | Uninspired leaders of volunteers are powerless in defeat (5) |