| ADIA | Female song subject who becomes a female opera subject when the middle letters are flipped |
| OMAN | Country that becomes a female with a W in front of it |
| FOURAM | When the middle watch ends |
| ELBOW | Joint whose middle letters are a corporate takeover initialism as seen in the *clue answers |
| HERBARIA | A female's song about a billion collections of dried plants (8) |
| LEET | Term whose middle letters are typically replaced with 3s |
| LENORE | Poe subject who "died so young" |
| ARIADNE | Beautiful female's song performed without love (7) |
| QUEEN | In short, unique enough to become a female monarch |
| MOM | Tattoo subject who might disapprove of tattoos |
| SNAP | Start of play in American football, when the centre passes the ball back from the line of scrimmage |
| DIGRESS | Depart from the subject when soldier turns up in female clothing (7) |
| SYNCOPE | When the centre of a word is missing (7) |
| SUGGESTS | Initiates a subject when single guests first go off |
| FALL | What happens, according to Yeats, when the centre cannot hold (6,4,5) |
| APART | What happens, according to Yeats, when the centre cannot hold (6,4,5) |
| THINGS | What happens, according to Yeats, when the centre cannot hold (6,4,5) |
| NEEL | Portraitist Alice, whose subjects who seem to gaze straight at the viewer |
| MORTGAGED | Like Monopoly deeds that are flipped upside down |
| OTHELLO | Board game in which discs are flipped |
