| FRYINGPAN | Fire's worse than this, they say (6,3) |
| REST | Change is as good as this, they say (4) |
| THROWN | Disconcerted queen sits on this, they say |
| ROME | All roads lead to this, they say |
| AVOIDABLE | It's not inevitable for a matador to try to do this, they say (9) |
| TWENTYTWO | One more than this clue number |
| PANTHEISM | No belief could be more widespread than this |
| FULLSPEED | One can go no faster than this (4-5) |
| FLOWERBED | Few could be bolder than this garden feature! (9) |
| MONTBLANC | One cannot get higher than this in the Alps (4,5) |
| NEEDLEFUL | Syringe can hold no more than this (9) |
| STOCKSTILL | Flowers to cultivate here - if they're like this they should be rooted to the spot (5-5) |
| SOLITUDE | Workers in firm finally retire: in this, they miss the company |
| PAID | *When athletes get this, they become pros |
| FADE | When flowers do this, they should be deadheaded (4) |
| GRILLE | Grating and toasting it using this, they said |
| ISOTOPES | One drunkard starts (or drinks like this) - they could be radioactive (8) |
| BLOODPRESSURE | The normal range of this measure in humans is less than 140 for the systolic and less than 80 for the diastolic - more than this and there's too much stress on the artery walls (5,8) |
| TWOPENNORTH | Say a bit more than this? (3-8) |
| PYTHIA | More epigrammatical, say, than this oracular medium (6) |
