| NEOTENY | Innovation's ending - yet one strangely is retaining early features |
| OARLESS | Having no blade? Therefore back retaining early payment |
| TONYCURTIS | One acting against US city is retaining brief (4,6) |
| KEEPING | Pine, perhaps, in barrel one is retaining (7) |
| PERFECT | Dorothy Parker asked, "Why is it no one ever sent me yet; One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get; One ... rose" |
| NOUN | "Verb" is one, strangely |
| GENOTYPE | People displaying similar features ___ yet one GP is in error (8) |
| TRACKEVENT | Participating in series of races is torture, yet one is running |
| NEOLITHIC | Like an old man, one strangely illuminated here in Rome |
| VEGETARIAN | One strangely negative about a beefburger, finally (10) |
| NOMINEE | Runner makes hole in one, strangely (7) |
| GENEROUS | Urges one, strangely, to be open-handed (8) |
| COLLECTIVENOUN | Gather setter's sister is retaining old team, for example (10,4) |
| PRIORITIES | Abbey's leader is retaining equal preferences (10) |
| APPETISER | Cooked pear is retaining favourite taste (9) |
| CONCRETEJUNGLE | Conjecture glen, strangely, is one far from beauty spot |
| ONTHELOOSE | Nothing provided by one hostel, strangely, is free (2,3,5) |
| ATISHOO | Avocado starter, strangely, is hot; duck is cold, from what we hear (7) |
| UPPERS | Yet one may be at one's lowest on them |
| BROWNFIELDSITES | Gordon, followed by Frank, strangely, is set to find building land (10,5) |
