| NEWAGE | For example, a very busy city about to become very modern |
| HECTIC | Artless architect about to become very busy (6) |
| LEGION | One of the pride swallows, for example, a very large number (6) |
| EMPEROR | Italian city about to welcome a ruler |
| IGNOBLE | Base one established north of French city about to be demolished (7) |
| SECRET | City about to block street, leaving no space between 3 and 12 (6) |
| RIOTER | Insurrectionist in city about to start uprising (6) |
| SEMINARIAN | Student from French city about to confront heretic |
| OASIS | A park in a busy city, for some |
| SPARETIME | Something a very busy person doesn't have a lot of |
| IRONS | A very busy jack-of-all-trades is likely to have too many such golf clubs in the fire? |
| FLYOFFTHEHANDLE | What a witch might do to become very angry? (3,3,3,6) |
| SEDATE | A steed that's made to become very placid |
| OBSTINATE | To get round test ban, one had to become very stubborn (9) |
| GASKET | Blow a ____, informal expression meaning 'to become very irate' (6) |
| EMACIATE | Medicate a model wanting drug primarily to become very thin (8) |
| BLUR | Memory of a very busy day, maybe |
| NOTABLE | Well-known problem in a very busy restaurant? (7) |
| PRESENTDAY | All in all, Santa had a very busy ___! |
| FOAMATTHEMOUTH | What a person having epileptic fit might do to become very angry? (4,2,3,5) |
