| ANTITHESIS | Essay ain't bad to start with? The opposite (10) |
| GOLFCLUB | Maybe putter around in VW Lupo, not half bad to start with (4,4) |
| BIRDFLU | ... bad to start, fluid collection overcoming resistance leads to disease (4,3) |
| AFTERSHAVE | Eat dessert to start with? This has a nice smell (10) |
| FOUNDATION | Start, with the lowest support: that's the basic idea. (10) |
| BOTTOMLESS | If it's never-ending, start with the end and have fewer at the end! (10) |
| CROWN | A new tooth to possess, given credit to start with? (5) |
| PREFACE | Creep tremulously round female with a few words to start with? |
| INITIATE | What did you do at the restaurant to start with? (8) |
| UGLYDUCKLING | Doesn't have great expectations to start with ? that's how Pen saw her brother in the past (4,8) |
| CRONYISM | Jobs for the boys, so it is, for old fogies favoured by leading chief to start with? (8) |
| OATS | Porridge or a toast soldier to start with? |
| PUTTOSEA | Quietly set out, floating away to start with? |
| MORBID | Unhealthy outlaw needing sex change to start with? (6) |
| INTROVERSION | Navel-gazing model found behind bars to start with? |
| SOT | One who is so tipsy to start with? (3) |
| PILOT | A light show to start with? |
| SOUP | It follows higher course to start with? |
| COOLIE | Labourer unenthusiastic - his heart elsewhere to start with? (6) |
| BENIGN | Liberal being nice to start with? (6) |
