| BLOWDRIED | No longer wet but not yet styled, say |
| MOST | The majority are a bit wet, but not I (4) |
| MOIST | Wet, but not dripping (5) |
| LAUNDRY | Washing French articles, no longer wet (7) |
| DRY | Make no longer wet |
| TOUCHDRY | Like paint after a few hours, no longer wet (5-3) |
| DRIED | Floated along with foot lifted out no longer wet (5) |
| DRYRUBENS | 1605's "The Fall of Phaeton," once the paint was no longer wet? |
| DREARY | Are huddled inside, not wet but miserable (6) |
| BRAINY | Bishop, wet but intelligent (6) |
| PADDLED | Got feet wet but got canoe moving (7) |
| MOISTEN | Slightly wet, but is to change when held by people (7) |
| DRIPPING | It's very wet, but goes solid when cold (8) |
| RAISIN | Is in the wet, but dried (6) |
| WASTEPAPER | Appears perhaps, salvaged wet, but (5,5) |
| BRAIN | A big-headed wet, but intellectual (5) |
| DRAINED | For day was wet, but the water didn't settle (7) |
| BRAINS | A bighead and wet, but smart (6) |
| RIPER | More yellow. but not yet brown, say |
| LASTLEGS | Going soon but not yet to final parts of competition (4,4) |
