| PATENTLY | It's obviously how an invention should be protected (8) |
| SEAHEATH | Cliff plant: each should be protected by covering (3,5) |
| WARRANTY | Guarantee soldier will be protected inside battle lines? (8) |
| MANDARIN | Bureaucrat will be protected by them -- and a ringleader (8) |
| INSULTED | Humiliated - without a means to be protected (8) |
| REGARDED | Saw it had been protected again, it might be said (8) |
| TEGEMINI | You lot will be protected (tego, tegere, texi, tectum) |
| TAXHAVEN | Where money can be protected |
| COCOONED | Two firms one day had been protected (8) |
| BIRDSANCTUARIES | Roughly disturb canaries' nests that should be protected (4,11) |
| WEATHERPROOFED | Here, raw pet-food freshly made, should be protected from the elements (14) |
| GIZMO | Gremlin who should be protected at all costs |
| INOCULATED | Doddery old auntie, catching cold, should be protected from infection (10) |
| AFRO | Hairstyle should be protected at the seafront |
| POLICED | Large diamond shown off in school should be protected officially (7) |
| TERRELLA | Meaning "little earth" and thought to be an invention of William Gilbert, a globe-shaped magnet designed to simulate Earth's magnetic fields (8) |
| REACTION | An invention that's moved into care (8) |
| CREATION | An invention that's moved into care (8) |
| PATENTED | Protected, as with an invention |
| PATENTEE | One who's registered an invention |
