| ARCHAISM | First pair in Arabian Gulf to adopt one primitive style |
| LEISURE | Convenience outside one's primitive shelter (7) |
| PILOT | Plan to adopt one as a guide could be up in the air (5) |
| ASSISTANCE | Help an animal to adopt one posture (10) |
| SKIING | Second monarch to adopt one winter sport |
| TACIT | Understood discretion required to adopt one (5) |
| RESTRAIN | Hold back, when the others managed to adopt one (8) |
| POLICY | Ploy devised to adopt one key procedure |
| IMPOSE | I'm to adopt one and you make it a burden for me (6) |
| REVISION | Father is happening to adopt one amendment (8) |
| FIRSTANDLAST | Altogether quick to adopt one right policy by Liberal (5,3,4) |
| GAUCHERIE | Quashed each urge to adopt one vulgarity (9) |
| MENAGERIE | Guys agree, stupidly, to adopt one group of animals (9) |
| DISHOUT | Serve first pair in dinner before turn to buy drinks (4,3) |
| MUSANDAM | Omani exclave sitting on the northeastern extension of the Arabian Peninsula, separating the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to form the Strait of Hormuz. (8) |
| ARABIAN | The world's largest peninsula. Located in the extreme southwestern corner of Asia, it is bounded by the Red Sea, the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden. (7) |
| HORMUZ | Strait that connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman (6) |
| ELLINGTON | Duke navigates bend in Gulf to Abadan at last (9) |
| OMANI | One from the Arabian Gulf will turn in a mo' (5) |
| PETE | Perhaps Sampras exercises with first pair in tennis (4) |
