| PEEROFTHEREALM | Noble quietly retracted warning caught by heavenly maiden (4,2,3,5) |
| HOUR | Heavenly maiden loses one unit of time (4) |
| AMBER | Warning caught by avoiding bend in road |
| CAVEAT | Warning caught by a former soldier touring area (6) |
| SATELLITE | Little sea disturbed by heavenly body |
| COMELIEST | Remains enthralled by heavenly body, most attractive (9) |
| STAR | Rats taken aback by heavenly body (4) |
| STAIRS | Flight in which one is encircled by heavenly bodies (6) |
| START | Found time to be sat on by heavenly body |
| STAIR | For part of the flight, one is ringed by heavenly body (5) |
| ECLIPSEOFTHESUN | Briefly kept in the dark by heavenly event? (7,2,3,3) |
| PANCAKELANDING | Emergency manoeuvre by an aircraft coming in with its undercarriage still retracted (7,7) |
| CARAT | Measure of purity in account retracted by informer |
| DUMBSHOW | Slander retracted by bishop who's sorry - no words are necessary here |
| LAIC | Caught in a lie, initially retracted, concerning the congregation (4) |
| HERON | Bird that flies with its neck retracted |
| TELESCOPIC | (Of an instrument) capable of being retracted and protruded (10) |
| TRAILMIX | Scoff when rambling confession of perjurer retracted in Texas (5,3) |
| DECEITFUL | Misleading report of constituency generous editor first retracted (9) |
| INDETAIL | Thoroughly humiliated, Nixon retracted to some extent (2,6) |
