| FIXATIVE | Holder to arrange at quarter past four (8) |
| TENTATIVE | Provisional shelter at quarter past four (9) |
| EVASIVE | Dodgy vase smashed at quarter past four (7) |
| ENDIVE | Finish at quarter past four with salad plant (6) |
| PERCEIVE | See salesman back at church at a quarter past four (8) |
| POSITIVE | Confident individual's in job by a quarter past four (8) |
| NOSEDIVE | Proceeded gingerly before quarter past four having made headlong plunge (8) |
| UNSCREWS | Slackens off when the sun is out at quarter past eight, say (8) |
| EXTENDED | Stretched out at quarter to ten, having cared for the sick (8) |
| ELUSIVE | Hard to find the Spanish-American at a quarter past four (7) |
| RECEIVE | Welcome bible study at church at a quarter past four (7) |
| NOONE | It's opposite to everybody at quarter past twelve (2,3) |
| RECORDER | A judge at quarter-sessions; an annalist, archivist, chronicler, diarist, registrar or other account-keeper; a fipple flute; or, a tape deck or Dictaphone, for capturing sounds (8) |
| RESTIVE | Lie down at a quarter past four, feeling edgy (7) |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | Executive notice cleric's lost energy at a quarter past four (14) |
| STRATEGY | Game requires holder to contain speed and gravitational constant (8) |
| DEFENDER | Competing title-holder to put off the final held inside (8) |
| CHAMPION | Title holder to adjust cap on him (8) |
| RETENTIVE | Holding back on shelter before a quarter past four |
| DETECTIVE | Dick, Ted, etc., dispersed by quarter past four (9) |
