| INSANER | More unstable, doing nothing almost, after hospital admission |
| CHAP | Man better after hospital admission |
| FREEZER | Appliance costing nothing (almost nothing) (7) |
| ISOMER | Compound very like another is more unstable (6) |
| MADDER | More unstable plant yielding pigment (6) |
| THOUGH | Still difficult to get hospital admission (6) |
| CHORE | Heart requires hospital admission as routine |
| NOTBACKWARDINCOMINGFORWARD | Bold, apparently fashionable types watch hospital admission? (3,8,2,6,7) |
| NOTHING | Trivial matter of registering hospital admission (7) |
| CAUSE | Reason for all to see in hospital admission (5) |
| AZOIC | A character at the end? Nothing, almost frozen lifeless (5) |
| TIERCEL | Hawk in prison almost after row (7) |
| DOTERS | Lovers being brusque almost after social function (6) |
| CALFSKIN | Hide and seek ends in discovery almost after stifled shout (8) |
| PANTHER | Cat at that point almost, after sleep, getting up (7) |
| SILENUS | Deity saying nothing, almost useless |
| LARKSPUR | Flowers unblemished, almost, after fun and games |
| CONDUIT | I entered work almost after crook was in passage (7) |
| NEXT | ___ to nothing (almost zero) |
| SEETHROUGH | Concealing nothing, almost get angry and violent (3-7) |