| FULFIL | If full, perhaps, will achieve some purpose |
| PLOT | Secret plan to achieve some purpose (4) |
| EATSALONE | Avoids talking with one's mouth full, perhaps |
| PHLEGM | What your lungs sound like if full of urine, we hear? (6) |
| BLANKS | With these types of vacancies to fill, firing them will achieve nothing (6) |
| DAVIES | Poet who thought it a poor life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (6) |
| HIATUS | Panama perhaps will welcome one American interruption (6) |
| SEAMAS | Morning, in the main, perhaps, will do for Irishman (6) |
| UNYOKE | Ken you, perhaps, will remove harness (6) |
| ENSURE | Guarantee Midge, perhaps, will follow all but one direction (6) |
| NEEDLE | Sounds like something early riser perhaps will do to the French with one eye in the sewing shop (6) |
| USABLE | Affording some purpose (6) |
| REASON | Stranger arose before noon with some purpose (6) |
| PAUSES | Breathing spaces father puts to some purpose (6) |
| IMPART | Teach setter's craft, instilling some purpose (6) |
| AROUSE | Stir with an oar, possibly, to some purpose (6) |
| USEFUL | Serving some purpose (6) |
| LOWCUT | Rough clothing ladies perhaps will be revealing (3-3) |
| SCOUSE | Put to some purpose by small company making a kind of stew (6) |
| GIMMICKS | Tricks or devices used to achieve some end, sales perhaps |
