| VERNIER | Measuring scale more suited to early SF writer? (7) |
| MINORKEY | Musical scale - more inky (anag) (5,3) |
| VERNE | Jules ___ : SF writer ? (5) |
| HEROISM | Husband is more suited to show bravery (7) |
| RICHTER | Earthquake-measuring scale (7) |
| ENSNARE | Directions to Carroll's quarry almost lead to early capture (7) |
| ROADMANAGER | Granada, more suited to being a tour runner? (4,7) |
| SACKBUT | Dismiss objection to early instrument (7) |
| LATENCE | Time delay, being behind time before National Curriculum comes to early end (7) |
| PRAIRIE | It was plain to early American settlers (7) |
| EATERS | Apples suitable for consuming raw, as opposed to "cookers", such as Blenheim Oranges or Bramleys, more suited to baking or stewing (6) |
| STY | "It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader ... to live in a house than in a mere ___" (line from "Animal Farm") |
| MANGROVE | Cabinet minister follows staff around river - one's more suited to swamps! |
| GASFITTER | Idle talk more suited to tradesman (3,6) |
| FITTER | More suited to being a mechanic |
| FLUFF | Dog name more suited to a Samoyed than a greyhound |
| TADPOLE | Emerging from spawn in late February to early March, the aquatic larva of a frog before its metamorphosis into a froglet (7) |
| CAMPION | Pinky-red flower of meadows, country lanes, hedgerows and woodlands from spring to early autumn; or, the director of The Piano and Top of the Lake (7) |
| ANTLERS | Males and females have ___. Males lose theirs in winter to early spring and females start to shed theirs in summer. |
| THEATRE | Word for a surgery or operating room due to early examples arranged with tiered seats like auditoriums (7) |
