| THEDIEISCAST | Expression meaning things have been set in motion irrevocably (3,3,2,4) |
| STAYSPUT | Doesn't budge, reinforcements having been set in (5,3) |
| COMBINEHARVESTER | The corn's amber - I've to be set in motion |
| ABSTINENCE | Non-indulgence of appetites can be set in motion |
| BEGAN | Plead for the object to be set in motion |
| AGENDA | From the Latin meaning "things to be done", a schedule or to-do list (6) |
| ANECDOTE | From the Greek meaning "things unpublished", a short often amusing story of an incident of private life (8) |
| ACTS | Meaning "things done", a word for deeds, laws, pretences, short prayers or divisions of operas/plays (4) |
| PERFECTASUNT | Acta; these things have been completed, to the highest standard? |
| DISENTANGLED | Sent Ed in, glad after a fashion to have been set free |
| LITTLEACORNS | Proverb demonstrating that big things have to start from small things (6,4,4,6,6,4) |
| BEYONDRECALL | Irrevocably |
| RICHTERSCALE | Rich tea cut by Clare's boss? That's a measure of how shocking things have got! (7,5) |
| OMISSIONS | Some things have been left out -- ring the visiting diplomats (9) |
| HERALDS | Messengers may find things have been shared out on line (7) |
| CARETS | Mysterious traces a signs when things have been missing (6) |
| SCRIPTASUNT | Things have been written |
| CONISTONWATER | Lake in Cumbria, England where various world water speed records have been set (8,5) |
| JONSON | English poet and playwright whose lyrics "Drink to me only with thine eyes" have been set to music in various forms since the 1770s (6) |
| CONISTON | Lake in Cumbria west of Windermere where various world water speed records have been set (8,5) |
