| SLIGHTER | Insult head of state no longer of lesser importance |
| CUTIN | Make a dodgy manoeuvre as Conservative head of state (no parking involved) (3,2) |
| REICH | State no longer well off, expenditure finally curbed |
| EXTRADITION | Return to original state no longer the established practice? |
| USSR | Skeletons excavated in old city state no longer in one piece |
| NUT | Ignoring the odds, insult head (3) |
| SUBSERVIENT | Of lesser importance? Outbreak of BSE ruins vet! |
| SUBSIDIARY | Redevelopment of Bury is said to be of lesser importance |
| LUMBER | Large brown pieces of furniture no longer of any use (6) |
| WATER | No longer of any importance (5,5,3,6) |
| UNDERTHEBRIDGE | No longer of any importance (5,5,3,6) |
| ANCIENTHISTORY | Shattering his certainty on something no longer of importance (7,7) |
| SIDEISSUE | Susie dies foolishly for a matter of lesser importance (4,5) |
| FLIPSIDE | Toss with the team of lesser importance (4-4) |
| PETTY | One's favourite treasury tips are of lesser importance |
| SIDEROAD | Route of lesser importance (4,4) |
| MINOR | A youngster is of lesser importance |
| SECONDARY | Redesigned yards once of lesser importance (9) |
| PETIT | Of lesser importance, in law |
| MINER | Of lesser importance they say for a pit worker (5) |
