| YIELDING | It's not hard arranging dig in Ely (8) |
| EXCAVATION | Tax a novice arranging digs |
| UNDERLIE | Be the basis of foreign articles on beginners in lacrosse in Ely (8) |
| IDEOLOGY | Creed abandoned in Ely, good but not new |
| EVERYDAY | Extremely old man cuts edges in Ely common (8) |
| INITIATE | Start in one-time, start in hate (it's not hard) (8) |
| POSTPONE | Delay the use of mail (and phone). It's not hard (8) |
| SOFTCOPY | It's not hard to find policeman from The Yard and that won't appear in print (4,4) |
| SOFTSOAP | Sweet-talk, it's not hard with Coronation Street for instance (4,4) |
| EXILE | One's not allowed in Ely, it might be said (5) |
| ELYSIAN | Delightful in Ely as in disarray (7) |
| EQUITY | Justice threw in sponge in Ely, losing heart |
| SECURITYBLANKET | Old city-within-city vacant in Ely? Ultimately thought a source of comfort (8,7) |
| SEDATE | Composed little, back in Ely, for example |
| SESSILE | Immobile ship one left in Ely? |
| RESERVE | Book about vacuous vicar up in Ely? |
| LEYLINE | Magical cross-country joiner the French resettled in Ely (3,4) |
| YIELDER | One giving up ride in Ely, possibly (7) |
| LIFESTYLE | Way of living in Ely itself changed (9) |
| EDDY | Bishop in Ely left out -- one going against the flow (4) |
