| EXTRACTORFAN | I used to be ardent about farm machinery, but I'm cooler now (9,3) |
| MINIBAR | Scrambled brain? I'm cooler (7) |
| AVOID | Advice not to be ardent about love (5) |
| ENTHUSE | Be ardent then change employment |
| HEDGESPARROW | Bird with wings on centre of pipes in farm machinery (5,7) |
| MUCKSPREADER | One disparaging farm machinery |
| MAEWEST | "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" |
| PUN | 'I used to be a banker but I lost interest,' e.g. |
| DRIFTED | 'I used to be Snow White, but I __': Mae West |
| MAE | West who said "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" |
| SNOWWHITE | "I used to be ___ ___, but I drifted": Mae West (4,5) |
| WEST | Mae who said "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" |
| TRUNCATED | TUC ardent about having been subjected to cuts (9) |
| NOPUNINTENDED | Comment that might follow "I used to be a banker until I lost interest" |
| OLDER | "The __ I get, the better I used to be": John McEnroe |
| ABE | Simpson who said "I used to be with it but then they changed what 'it' was" |
| TRANSPORTED | Got carried away, being unusually ardent about playing games (11) |
| ARROW | "I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an ___ in the knee..." (line from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim") |
| STEVEN | 'I used to be a narrator for bad mimes' speaker Wright |
| CONFIRMABAM | I used to be in the habit of strengthening and supporting |
