| GREYHOUNDRACING | Grouchy grannie annoyed over earliest of developments in sport (9,6) |
| ACCUSE | Charge with an offence when expert frames copper over earliest of scams (6) |
| RENTAL | Subsequently upset over earliest of necklaces becoming available to lease (6) |
| ESSAYIST | It's easy to struggle over earliest of speeches by Samuel Johnson for instance (8) |
| DEPTFORD | Part of Government, in short, supporting start of development in London area |
| AWARE | Informed of current developments in a town in Hertfordshire (5) |
| AFAIRCOP | Just charge for that work in support of development in Africa (1,4,3) |
| EMBRYO | An animal or human in the early stages of development in the womb (6) |
| ROADOIL | Centres of Europe extremely annoyed over solidly regular highway protector (4,3) |
| SCENARIO | When icons are smashed in a serious of developments (8) |
| IMPRACTICAL | Critic lama annoyed over first of plans being unworkable (11) |
| LIFECYCLES | Iron, carbon, yttrium and chlorine found in lounges and various series of developments (4,6) |
| STAGNATION | Lack of development in a country without women? (10) |
| SNAPSHOTS | The result of developments from a sharpshooter? (9) |
| VIBRATE | Very annoyed over British pound? (7) |
| EVE | Part of developments the day before (3) |
| DOVER | First of developments above British port (5) |
| CROSSPATCH | Bad-tempered person is annoyed over the repair job (10) |
| MADAGASCAR | Indian Ocean island, annoyed over a petrol vehicle (10) |
| HYPERSENSITIVE | Peevish sentry annoyed over yours truly having unduly vulnerable feelings (14) |
