| PORTENTOUS | Not sure about top - a bit too solemn perhaps? (10) |
| LIGHTLY | Removing top, a bit frivolously (7) |
| EXTRA | Over the top: a bit - (slang) |
| BARBERSHOP | Where you might get a flat top - hopefully not from the tenor (10) |
| EARWIGGING | Not sure about one getting time off for lecture (10) |
| BALDERDASH | Thinner on top a little bit? Nonsense |
| TAB | Versatile word with meanings including an aerofoil, a bill, a cigarette, a collar insignia, a dose of LSD, a flap, a fob, a loop of a theatrical curtain, the drape itself, musical notation, a pill, a |
| CASTOR | A flour dredger-like pepperette or sugar shaker with a perforated top; a sextuple star system that is Pollux's less-bright twin in Gemini; a beaver, its genus or a hat from its fur; or, a small swivel |
| COUNTER | A tally, teller, timer or totaliser; a tiddlywink or points-tracker; a token representing a coin; a kitchen top; a turnstile or till's table over which takeaways, teas or tickets are traded and legal |
| SOMNOLENT | Not solemn, perhaps just sleepy (9) |
| TORNADO | Was not sure about a party being caught in a violent storm ... (7) |
| RHOMB | From Greek for "bull-roarer", "magic wheel" or "spinning top", a quadrilateral also called a diamond or a kite; or, a lozenge-shaped thing (5) |
| ABATED | Slackened a top a tooth in a bed. (6) |
| ALBUM | LP for a pound? Not sure about that! (5) |
| UNCERTAIN | Not sure about performing a nice turn (9) |
| TRAUMATIC | Shocking art movement has a following - I'm not sure about it on reflection (9) |
| SYRUP | Golden or maple liquid to top a pancake, or one made of figurative Cockney figs to denote hair that is fake, it was once a term for a medicinal drink Arabic folk would take (5) |
| PRONOUNCE | Say expert nibbled top a little bit (9) |
| OUNCE | Revive, removing top a little bit (5) |
| STARR | Right to the top a shining example as a drummer (5) |
