| PLEAT | In Barnstaple, a tailor is making modifications for me -- he's creating a multiple fold in my garment (5) |
| CORSET | Body-shaping garmen |
| ONE | He's the ___ for me. (He's my soulmate) |
| FITTING | Something organised by a tailor is appropriate (7) |
| PLEAD | Some in Barnstaple advised to answer charge |
| TREFOIL | Plant making modifications to rifle |
| ALTERER | One making modifications |
| LATECOMER | Sadly clear to me, he's a tardy person (9) |
| REFI | Mortgage modification, for short |
| ADAPTION | Notice father back into trouble-making modification? (8) |
| PUN | "My tailor is happy to make a pair of pants for me, or at least sew it seams," e.g. |
| DIZZYDEAN | "The Good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong right arm, a good body, and a weak mind." |
| PATCHOLE | My second home, a converted chapel, is near this small town about ten miles from Barnstaple (8) |
| CHELFHAM | I am a chef at a medium-sized hotel, The Hillside, about five miles from Barnstaple (8) |
| GOODOEIGH | A third lady has now been taken in by this gigolo -- he lives about one mile from Barnstaple (9) |
| HARRACOTT | My car broke down near Roath last night -- I was travelling to a place near Barnstaple (9) |
| LANDKEY | Ken has moved in with a lady who lives about three miles from Barnstaple (7) |
| OBSCENE | My son, a civil engineer who lives on the outskirts of Barnstaple, can be terribly rude (7) |
| BLACKEYE | Evidence of a punch-up found by valet in outskirts of Barnstaple (5,3) |
| SEMINARY | Tailor is near my place to learn the cloth trade |
