| GRINDINGTOAHALT | How miller is gradually beginning to stop working (8,2,1,4) |
| BYPLAY | Backstage chatter, or how Miller unmasked McCarthy? (6) |
| LITERALISM | Miller is at pains to produce exact rendering (10) |
| GRINDER | Miller is one who keeps students hard at work (7) |
| HAMLET | Play a bowler, oddly Miller is included (6) |
| KNOWATHINGORTWO | Love to stop working, now that various wise folk do |
| WITLESS | Slow time entering manoeuvres before beginning to stop (7) |
| COSMICRAYS | Cover over Nissan car beginning to stop radiation |
| MIDSTREAM | Tide's beginning to stop mermaids swimming in current location |
| PEST | Favourite guards beginning to stop troublesome individual (4) |
| ENCROACHING | A plant, for example, that is gradually intrusive on another, is said to be ___ it (11) |
| SINEAD | Weatherfield lass who is gradually learning to walk again (6,6) |
| BYDEGREES | How an all-graduate profession is gradually achieved (2,7) |
| OZONELAYER | Part of upper atmosphere that is gradually disappearing (5,5) |
| LONGSHORE | - - - drift, the process whereby beach material is gradually shifted along a coast (9) |
| BLOWSOVER | With the punch-up at an end, is gradually forgotten (5,4) |
| FADINGOUT | Passing craze in foot ailment is gradually disappearing (6,3) |
| RECEDES | ___ from memory (is gradually forgotten) |
| AGEING | Misguided Glaswegian disregarded laws but is gradually mellowing |
| FADES | What soundtrack does as volume is gradually reduced (5) |
