| BURGERKING | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain |
| BURGER | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain (6,4) |
| KING | Hard to escape cucumber fed to maggot, say, back in food chain (6,4) |
| DELI | I was in front looking back in food shop (4) |
| MEALWORM | Beetle larva alternative to maggot bait (*warm mole) (8) |
| OVERTHETOP | Excessive to say - back in the day - it took bottle to go into battle this way? (4,3,3) |
| RABBITHOLE | Metaphor for a hard-to-escape situation |
| PASSAGEWAY | Bite the dust defending, say, back alley (10) |
| SCAVENGERY | Creepy archdeacon, say back inside for foraging |
| PROPRIETOR | Rebel, some might say, backs support for owner (10) |
| GASTRONOME | Epicure, say, backs absorbing short study of stellar types (10) |
| SCHOOLGIRL | White House, say, backs probing enigmatic scholar over a missing pupil (10) |
| KNIFEEDGE | Rejecting fluid, take solids, say, back in precarious position |
| CHEESY | Sentimental place for Bishop, say, back in church cemetery finally |
| TUNIC | Hazel, say, back in charge of coat |
| USAGE | America, say, back in employment (5) |
| TWINGE | Sibling, say, back in pain (6) |
| ANTE | Punt worker, say, back in Cambridge (4) |
| ISLE | Man, say, back in Helsinki (4) |
| LARVA | Maggot, say ... in medlar variety (5) |
