| EASYTOSEE | If the light's poor it's not and that's obvious (4,2,3) |
| FLAT | The earth is not and that's categorical (4) |
| EASY | Word that when placed between It's Not and Being Green gives the title of a Dick Strawbridge series (4) |
| FUSEBOX | Something to check if the lights go out |
| DIMWITTEDNESS | Ability to tell if the lights are low? How stupid! (13) |
| EVIDENT | To begin with, Ted envied them and that's obvious (7) |
| TRUISM | They say you are heading west in swirling mist, and that's obvious |
| VERIFY | Confirm if the light goes out |
| IMPATIENS | Genus of touch-me-not and Busy Lizzie (9) |
| BACHELORS | Men who are not and have never been married (9) |
| INSPITEOF | Not and |
| DOUGLAS | Capital of the Isle of Man and seat of the Tynwald; or, a poet of the Second World War who wrote Vergissmeinnicht (forget-me-not) and the memoir Alamein to Zem Zem (7) |
| NEEDY | The poor, it's possible to deny out East |
| CALLUP | For the poor, it's difficult to get promoted (4,2) |
| DAISY | Opening its oculus when the Sun rises at dawn, a small marguerite with white petals or rays traditionally plucked in the child's game "he loves me, he loves me not" and whose stem can form part of a n |
| HARDUP | Being poor, it's difficult at college (4,2) |
| ILLTH | Being poor it's hard passing over a couple of pounds |
| BORAGE | Related to forget-me-not and comfrey and esteemed by honeybees and butterflies, a plant with blue star-shaped flowers used to garnish Pimm's Cup (6) |
| WETPAINT | Ineffectual, Penny is not - and I'm not to be sat on! (3,5) |
| ISLAM | "The United States is not, and never will be, at war with ___": Obama |
