| DIAPHANOUS | In the material sense, fine director and agency worker briefly consumed by debts (10) |
| ART | Human skill and agency (3) |
| SIMULTANEOUS | At the same time and back in Kansas, poor Aunt Elm is consumed by debts (12) |
| LUMINOUS | Leaderless ghetto with no capital consumed by debts - how bright is that? (8) |
| SPECIFIC | Writer briefly consumed by sci-fi compilation from the start that's explicit (8) |
| WELCOMED | Approved of friend of dancer briefly consumed by SEAL (8) |
| WORDSWORTH | Romantic poet from The Script is good value in the material sense (10) |
| GROOVE | Nothing in The Cherry Orchard, for one, is cut in the material sense (6) |
| LICENTIOUS | Abandoned client unsettled by debts (10) |
| PRECARIOUS | Rep is confused by debt notes covering vehicle that is likely to fall (10) |
| PURESILK | In the material sense, Georgette, for one, gets 100 per cent proof for lawyer at the bar (4,4) |
| PATTERNED | What isn't plain, in the material sense, is a set of instructions for writer (9) |
| HOMESPUN | House band's final music clip is plain, in the material sense (8) |
| SILKWORM | Boss milks row with one of those cocooning, in the material sense (8) |
| CEMENT | In a material sense, it's hard stuff finding yours truly in The Capital (6) |
| RAYON | Young writer lost top in Jersey, in material sense (5) |
| DENIM | In a material sense, I'm at a loose end (5) |
| MELODIOUS | Agreeable to the ear of model upset by debts (9) |
| NOBLEMEN | The foreign workers briefly in Bonn unsettled by peers (8) |
| VOILE | There's an awful hole in the material (5) |
