| MACHINES | High-speed bearings found in some of them (8) |
| LOWBUDGET | Inexpensive bearing found by shift in consignment (3-6) |
| ACROBATS | Entertainers performing in Cirque du Soleil or depicted in some of the paintings by Marc Chagall, for example (8) |
| SLUGHORN | Horace, Head of Slytherin House in some of the Harry Potter series, played on film by Jim Broadbent (8) |
| EMULSION | US oilmen mixed-up in some of the whitewashing (8) |
| TYROLEAN | Ornately designed in some of the Alps (8) |
| TRESPASS | Intrude in some of theatre's passageways (8) |
| SEPAL | Found in some of those pallid blooms (5) |
| SLOT | Crack found in some of the Oslo tenement (4) |
| ROT | Decay found in some of the carrots (3) |
| VENETIAN | - red; ferric oxide (jeweller's rouge) as a pigment; a colour used by Henri Matisse in some of his paintings (8) |
| FALSTAFF | Character in some of Shakespeare's plays based on Lollard leader Sir John Oldcastle (8) |
| FLOP | Bomb found in some of the Sevastopol fortifications going all the way back (4) |
| LETTERY | "End of story" in some of this puzzle's answers |
| AIRSAC | Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3) |
| PANACHE | Flamboyance of a church seen in some of the windows (7) |
| MOTH | Cinnabar, emerald, scarlet tiger, hummingbird hawk, brindled beauty... insect in the order Lepidoptera with butterflies, depicted in some of Jan van Kessel the Elder's paintings (4) |
| WICK | Braided cotton cord in a candle or an oil lamp; dialect for ; dairy farm; or, Anglo-Saxon word for a settlement used in some of England's place names (4) |
| GAMBON | Sir Michael -, actor whose roles have included Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's drama The Singing Detective and Albus Dumbledore in some of the Harry Potter films (6) |
| MOSELLE | Variety of white wine produced in some of the coldest climates used for commercial winemaking (7) |