| PRECEDENT | Earlier example used as guide |
| INSTANCE | example used as proof |
| LIVEBAIT | Maggots, for example, used as a fishing lure (4,4) |
| PATTERNS | They are used as guides in making things |
| SHERPAS | People from a mountainous region of Nepal, widely used as guides and porters for Himalayan climbing expeditions (7) |
| ANALOGS | Examples used as comparisons: Var. |
| PRECEDENTED | Warranted by an earlier example |
| ROUNDFIGURES | Noughts, for example, used in rough estimates? (5,7) |
| ROUNDNUMBERS | Noughts, for example, used in rough estimates? |
| LOOT | Upturned jemmy, for example, used to acquire this? (4) |
| SETS | Potato tubers, for example, used for planting (4) |
| BASEMETAL | Steel, for example, used for the foundation? (4,5) |
| TREATMENTPLANT | Ginseng, for example, used in sewage farm? (9,5) |
| ORGAN | Lung, for example, used in church choir accompaniment (5) |
| EASTENDERS | Soap, for example, used by nurses after end of procedure (10) |
| REDCARD | Queen of Hearts, for example, used to send offenders packing |
| AIRCONDITIONING | This might lower temperature if, for example, used in open debate (3-12) |
| LOOTED | Fork for example used the wrong way getting journalist sacked (6) |
| SUPERPOWER | China for example used to be scratched at the back on purpose, unfortunately (10) |
| RUN | Shrimp, for example, used up in different blend (3,8) |
