| HERMITAGE | Legacy includes my beginning a retreat (9) |
| OPEL | Hope legacy includes car (4) |
| CREMATION | In the beginning is my beginning and my end (9) |
| CABDRIVER | Crook's beginning a book club - he'll take you for a ride |
| CANDLELIT | Called in unwell before tea, beginning a romantic sort of meal (9) |
| ANACRUSIS | One or more unstressed syllables beginning a verse |
| EMBARKING | Beginning a journey |
| GUNBATTLE | Gauntlet thrown about before beginning a shoot-out (3,6) |
| TEEINGOFF | Beginning a round of golf (6,3) |
| REARGUARD | Force covering a retreat (9) |
| TURNSTAIL | Goes to the very end, but beats a retreat (5,4) |
| CLEARSOUT | Gets rid off the wrong items, so beats a retreat (6,3) |
| END | "In my - is my beginning." T. 5. Eliot, Four Quartets (3) |
| EVENWHENILOSE | John Legend "You're my end and my beginning, ___ I'm winning" |
| NOMINEE | Never-ending Christmas includes my favourite (7) |
| SUEDE | Woman includes my boss's material (5) |
| PSALM | One includes "My cup runneth over" in the Bible |
| MYEND | "In _ _ lies my beginning? motto of Mary, Queen of Scots. (2,3) |
| CORFU | Immortalised in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical trilogy that includes My Family and other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives, one of the greenest of the Greek islands (5) |
| DURRELL | Author of The Bafut Beagles and Menagerie Manor whose Corfu autobiographical trilogy includes My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
