| CALENDER | Initially cold, a person making advances becomes smoother |
| SLENDER | Thin person making advances after Sunday (7) |
| LOANER | Singleton picked up person making advances (6) |
| ERODE | Become smoother, in a way |
| SHAVE | Become smoother, in a way |
| EMERYPAPER | Mere yapper must change to become smoother |
| EASER | Puzzle's not beginning to become smoother (5) |
| PINCH | A tweak; a nip of cold; a financial squeeze or crunch; a crisis; a robbery; or, a sneesh of salt or other substance, taken between a finger and thumb (5) |
| AXEMAN | In retrospect, cite sign of a mistake by a person making brutal cutbacks? (6) |
| DAYTRIPPER | No case for such a person making short excursion? (3,7) |
| STOPPER | Plug a person making an arrest (7) |
| TOUCHPAPER | Trace quietly a person making explosive trigger (10) |
| SPARKY | Spirited skier, initially cold |
| INCANDESCED | Tinned soup, initially cold, through action got intensely hot (11) |
| NARCOTIC | Niobe, initially cold, swallows love drug (8) |
| ACQUIT | Clear air, initially cold, above desert |
| CREDO | Have another go after initially cold-shouldering faith (5) |
| CARDIOVASCULAR | Roughly treated a cold - a virus right in a bodily system |
| OCCLUDEDFRONT | Weather system a horrible a often cold a crud! (8,5) |
| CLEAR | Get over a cold a" a real streamer (5) |
