| UNAPT | Not fitting for a purpose |
| APT | Fitting for a purpose |
| UNSEASONABLE | Irrational to exchange first of rains for sun - not fitting for the time of year (12) |
| ONCE | Must be kidding, beginning with that same old story not fitting for adults? (4,4,1,4) |
| TIME | Must be kidding, beginning with that same old story not fitting for adults? (4,4,1,4) |
| UPONA | Must be kidding, beginning with that same old story not fitting for adults? (4,4,1,4) |
| SOCKET | Word, with an odd set of linguistic ancestors including a pig's snout, a ploughshare and a spearhead, for an electrical fitting for a bulb or a plug (6) |
| PLUG | A fitting for a socket for giving electrical connection |
| GROOVIN | '67 chart-topper for The Young Rascals fitting for a 'Sunday afternoon' |
| BAYONET | A type of fitting for a light bulb in which prongs on its side fit into slots to hold it in place (7) |
| NEWSREADER | Reward seen as fitting for a TV personality? (10) |
| GASPIPE | Fitting for a furnace, perhaps |
| NAUTICALSTRIPES | Summery fashion prints fitting for a yacht: 2 wds. |
| APTUS | Ready and prepared, fitting for a chap |
| SIDELIGHT | Is reversing with pleasure fitting for a car? |
| DOORKNOCKER | Fitting for a rapper we could admit? |
| PEACEARCH | British Columbia/ Washington State border monument fitting for a dove: 2 wds. |
| TRUSS | A bundle of hay or straw; a pack; a nautical fitting for holding a yard; a cluster of flowers or fruit growing on a stalk; a corbel; or, a belt, frame, tie or other supporting/binding thing (5) |
| MISC | Not fitting a category: abbr. |
| LERWICK | Rickety latticework, not fitting to a T in islands' capital (7) |
