| HUMIDIFIER | If I'm hired afresh to bring in unionisation at first, it may improve the atmosphere |
| EYESIGHT | It may improve if you have contacts |
| FAREWAR | It may improve your cost of leaving |
| NIBLICK | Old club which may improve the flow of writing (7) |
| CACTUS | Accustomed to change at first, it may survive in the desert (6) |
| WOOL | At court, lied at first, it may be felt |
| SILVERBIRCH | Flog trophy first -it may be found in the garden (6,5) |
| WAISTDEEP | Climbing weed a€“ at first, it was high up to the hips (5-4) |
| AIRFRESHENER | It helps to improve the atmosphere after one's kicked up a stink |
| AVOW | Confess to a vice - at first it hurts |
| AIRCONDITIONING | Tune, if popular, good thing to improve the atmosphere |
| SPACEINVADERS | Small step among alien surroundings at first: it diverted a generation (5,8) |
| FULLYFLEDGED | Feed scruffy gull, daily at first - it will fly off when grown up |
| IRAQI | At first it raises a question involving Middle Easterner |
| GAMBIT | At first, it seems a good move (6) |
| EWER | One's woolly reasoning, at first - it holds water |
| THOU | Thought, at first, it was you of old |
| NUMB | Figure at first it is unfeeling (4) |
| OUCH | Feel having extracted tooth: at first it hurts |
| ICING | When a second great thing happens in addition to a first it is said to be ... on the cake |
