| DUDES | Guys, those failing to preserve energy |
| DIETER | Slimmer tried desperately to preserve energy |
| JAMESI | English king to preserve energy with international system (5,1) |
| NOSHOWS | Method to stop small child upsetting those failing to appear (2-5) |
| NONSTARTERS | Those failing to begin in race |
| TINDERY | Preserve energy to interrupt hardliner, easily fired (7) |
| PERSEVERE | Be unwilling to stop, but preserve energy somehow |
| CREAM | Best 1500m runner preserves energy (5) |
| ALOEVERA | A paramour preserves energy with a cosmetic liquid (4,4) |
| CREOSOTE | It preserves energy and oxygen when getting into tight corset (8) |
| EMBALM | To treat a corpse with chemicals in order to preserve it from decay, is to do what (6) |
| ARGENTINE | National data to preserve, measure taken to conceal it |
| LOGJAM | Comes to a standstill with record to preserve (6) |
| STABILISER | Additive to food which helps to preserve its structure (10) |
| PESTO | Instruction to reader to preserve drained excess sauce (5) |
| MAINTAIN | Have to carry on to preserve things, in practise (8) |
| VOLCANO | One is likely to blow one's top on the radio to preserve order (7) |
| PRESS | Apple or grape crusher; a utensil to mince garlic cloves; or, a clamped device used to preserve flowers and foliage (5) |
| YUPPY | Aspiring professional party needs skill to face both ways to preserve union (5) |
| BLUE | Colour of the powder traditionally used to preserve the whiteness of laundry; or, in quantum chromodynamics, one of the "colours" ascribed to quarks (4) |
