| NONCE | For the time being (used with "for the") |
| LONGS | Wants very much (used with "for") |
| EBONY | Wood that's beyond being used with the end missing (5) |
| TRADE | Recalled primitive weapon being used with drug business |
| INTERIM | The Cockney will bury the bloke for the time being (7) |
| HELSINKI | Sounds like perdition to begin with for the capital I end with! Finish, you hear! (8) |
| DOCTOR | Tamper with for the minister (6) |
| ALTRUIST | Philanthropist has an inventory with for the main part, accurate content |
| TOUCHING | Making contact with, for the purpose of getting money from? |
| SEAMAN | Main with, for the most part, a lot of salt (6) |
| LOCUM | Emo colin returned with for the fill in (5) |
| PELEG | Whom Ishmael signed up with for the Pequod |
| VENTILATOR | Even with the lid off for the time being, say, it's refreshing (10) |
| PROTEM | Professional side with no opening for amateur in it, for the time being (3,3) |
| AUDEN | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Letters from Iceland, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio and of the poems published posthumously in the collection Thank You, Fog (5) |
| DOMINGO | In his place, Sriram will take up the T20 coaching role for Bangladesh for the time being. (7) |
| STRIKER | Batsman who is facing the bowling for the time being (7) |
| PRESENTMENT | A bestowal for the time being with chaps at last |
| WINNOW | Part with wife at home for the time being (6) |
| TEMP | Person filling in a job for the time being, for short |
