| ABSENTIA | In ..., not present (8) |
| SLEEPOUT | Not up for this and not in not in time for work perhaps (5,3) |
| ODDBALLS | They don't fit in, not even with the shadow Chancellor (8) |
| RETICENT | Reserved? It's back in not long ago (8) |
| PERFORCE | Make holes in (not at) round number necessarily (8) |
| LEISURED | Commanded one confident in not having to work (8) |
| INTRUDER | Person taking time to break in, not so polite? (8) |
| PAIGNTON | Devon resort takes a PG in, not unnaturally (8) |
| IRRITATE | Jar of water with tons in, not gallons (8) |
| RECENTLY | Count money put in not so long ago (8) |
| GALLOWAY | Scots beef when pass goes in not straight |
| INTERPOL | Law enforcers tuck in, not having dined |
| FAIRPLAY | Sportsmanship in not bad drama (4,4) |
| BRUNETTE | Actress Davis run in: not fair! |
| KIRSHNER | Canadian actress in "Not Another Teen Movie," |
| NOVELIST | Leading couples in not very likely story for Jane Austen perhaps |
| WESTERLY | For Victoria I, in not-amused manner, forgetting name is a particular blow |
| SIDEDOOR | Unobtrusive way in (not the main entrance) (4,4) |
| OUTCOLD | Not in, not warm, not conscious (3,4) |
| WESLEY | Novelist who, during her years as a septuagenarian, wrote of characters including Calypso in The Camomile Lawn, Hebe in Harnessing Peacocks and Rose in Not That Sort of Girl (6) |
