| GASLIGHT | Greenery, at first a modest innovation in late Georgian streets (8) |
| SHERATON | Thomas, English furniture designer of the late Georgian period (8) |
| FIGTREE | It provides fruit to fling at greenery at odd intervals (3,4) |
| BURUNDI | Land, not essentially best in wines, lacking greenery at the entrance (7) |
| RADIANCE | Artist, leader of innovation in movement and light (8) |
| BETRAYAL | Barely treasonous at first, a criminal act that's treasonous! (8) |
| DEUCEDLY | Damnably difficult at first - landlady gutted by what might be said in court (8) |
| SODAJERK | Who's serving our drinks at first: a Yank? |
| AMENABLE | Willing to cooperate at first - men appear competent (8) |
| NANOTECH | Result of small innovations in science, briefly? |
| DEMURELY | Initially dump bird next to bank, in a modest way (8) |
| AFLUTTER | In nervous state, having a modest bet |
| HUMILITY | Lithium battery finally exploded showing a modest quality (8) |
| CHAPLAIN | Church with a modest clergyman (8) |
| ITSAGIFT | Present a modest response to compliment (3,1,4) |
| ONEPIECE | Single fragment of a modest swimsuit (3-5) |
| LIGHTSUP | Looks brighter having a modest bit of supper (6,2) |
| PAMPHLET | "A Modest Proposal", eg |
| FLUTTER | A polysemous word for a modest wager or bet; a heartbeat; a flap of a wing; a bat of one's eyelashes; a sensation or stir; a group of butterflies or flags; or, a fairy formation (7) |
| RIFLEMAN | One shoots a little, not at first a lot? Not entirely (8) |
