| INCARCERATION | Knock off Cortina - in care or spell in jail (13) |
| REMISS | Lacking in care or attention to duty (6) |
| LAX | Lacking in care or strictness (3) |
| SECRETARYBIRD | Flyer's unrevealed lines about a spell in jail |
| KNUR | Ball used in a game with a trap or "spell"; or, a knot in a tree trunk (4) |
| SIT | A mode or spell of perching, posing or resting one's posterior on a saddle, settle, sofa, stall or stool; or, a somewhat Barbara Woodhouse-ish command to a dog to assume a similar such ensconced posit |
| PORRIDGE | Spell in jail and breakfast food (8) |
| SOMETIME | One fine day, will get a spell in jail! (8) |
| BOWERBIRD | Aussie singer and violinist given spell in jail? |
| OLDTIME | Former lord crushed by one's first spell in jail |
| DOTIME | Pass a spell in jail (2,4) |
| RAINBIRD | Flyer produced by artist during spell in jail |
| HUMMINGBIRD | Flyer’s busily active spell in jail |
| RUNE | Any one of the letters of the futhork or ancient Germanic alphabet, devised for carving into wood or stone; a modern interpretation of one of these for divination; a mystery or secret; or, a magic sym |
| TURNS | Bouts or spells of work; rotations of the body in dance; or, reversals in the direction of travel (5) |
| MIS | Lead-in to speak or spell |
| CHAIN | Knock-on effect repaired in each Cortina (5,8) |
| ESCORT | Chaperone carried in Jessie's Cortina or the other Ford? (6) |
| TOUR | From "lathe", word for one's turn or spell of duty, thus a circuitous journey, peregrination or travelling round (4) |
| MOJO | A magic charm, talisman or spell (4) |
