| EATOUT | Forgo cooking ... or, read with spaces after the second and fourth letters, a theme hint |
| NOT | Negating word that, if parsed with a space after the second letter, may help to understand nine Across answers |
| OLAV | Name that becomes a shape if you switch the second and fourth letters |
| OVAL | Shape that becomes a name if you switch the second and fourth letters |
| EXTRACT | Remove, or, if you put a space after the fifth letter, a feature of five of this puzzle's Across answers |
| STYLEGUIDE | One might instruct you to use two spaces after a period |
| FAIRBANKS | US city has just empty spaces after lake's been drained |
| MYRA | Woman's name that becomes another woman's name if you interchange its second and fourth letters |
| MINOR | Of a musical scale, having a semitone interval between the second and third degrees, and the fifth and sixth (5) |
| FORM | A hare's lair; a long backless wooden bench; or, a sheet printed with spaces for answers (4) |
| ELSIE | Woman's name that becomes a different woman's name when its third and fourth letters are switched |
| YUGOSLAVIA | Balkan country, a kingdom after the First World War, and a socialist republic after the second, that broke apart in 1992 (10) |
| COLDWAR | The state of political hostility between the West and the Soviet Bloc after the Second World War (4,3) |
| FROOT | Cereal box word whose third and fourth letters are stylized as bits of cereal |
| ESSAY | Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters |
| ERIC | Mr Mcpherson, the first Australian to compete in the TT after the Second World War, after helping to form the Motor Cycle Racing Club of New South Wales during it. (4) |
| PREFAB | Informally, a house of the type built in large numbers during and after the Second World War |
| ADAMS | The surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States (5) |
| WHEREVER | In any place, centre forward is present volleying the first, heading the second and striking the third (8) |
| BUCCAL | Facial nerve that supplies sensation to the inner and outer cheek and the 2nd and 3rd molars (6) |
